Children’s picture/story book: Tiny regular humans in grassland village, hollowing fruits for hot air balloons, racing in grass, riding dandelions
I’m looking for my favorite childhood book from around 2010-2012 (I was in 5th grade). It was a large A4-size portrait layout book, roughly 200 pages,fully black and white book, with hand-drawn / artistic style pictures. I couldn’t read English at the time, so I mostly just stared at the illustrations.
Key scenes I remember:
• Tiny humans (regular small people, not gnomes/fairies with wings or beards) living in a grassland/meadow village
• They hollowed out fruits/pumpkins to make hot air balloons and flew in them
• Racing cars/vehicles made of tiny fruits and objects in the grass
• Riding dandelion flowers in the wind
• They hid or hugged under mushrooms when it rained, sheltered under flowers, etc.
It was a gift from my uncle. The pictures were detailed, whimsical, and imaginative — like a whole tiny human world in nature.
Books I’ve already checked and ruled out:
• Gnomes (and Secrets of the Gnomes) by Wil Huygen & Rien Poortvliet
• Woodland Folk series by Tony Wolf
• Come Follow Me… to the Secret World of Elves and Fairies and Gnomes and Trolls by Gyo Fujikawa
• Fairyland by Gyo Fujikawa
• Flower Fairies series/collections by Cicely Mary Barker
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• David the Gnome books / pop-ups
• Trouble for Trumpets by Peter Cross
Any help identifying this book would be amazing! Thank you.