Swift Freda Swift 
Adventure of the Witch’s Tree [EPUB ebook] 

This is the story of three children, two of which are twins and their friends a gnome, a Goblin and his children and their tall thin wondering friend. People and fairy folk are going missing taken by large spiders. The friends were asked by the fairy guardian to find and rescue these people. It was found that these people had been taken on the orders of an old witch so she could drain their energy to make herself young and beautiful. On their journey to find the witch they encountered a troll blocking their way. Stopping the night at a mysterious Inn from which they just escaped with their lives. Then encountering crows, ants, biker boars and large toads until they eventually found the ‘Witch’s Tree’ where the captors were being held.