There was this great book I read as a kid whose title I can’t remember sadly. It was about a bunch of empty boxes (hat boxes I think) that are misplaced somehow and are colonized by a bunch of little tiny people or something who build a town out of them. Anyone recall this?
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Only additional details I remember: it was large and had lots of illustrations and was perhaps at 2nd/3rd grade reading level. Not a baby book, but not young adult either. There were also hot air balloons made out of paper bags and parachutes made of flowers towards the end.
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The movie “Boxtrolls” is what came to mind for me. Wikipedia says it is based on the book, “Here Be Monsters!”
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Definitely not Bromeliad Trilogy by Pratchett, but this thread makes me marvel at how common the “little people living in-but invisible to-adult world” myth archetype is.
In Japanese culture it also seems the diminutives are more in touch with ancient spirits. Less so in Western.
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That doesn’t ring a bell... is one of them set in a bunch of boxes?
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Roxaboxen doesn’t have boxes except in the name but otherwise sounds like it might be what you’re remembering
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