Help me find my childhood book
Trying to identify a standalone children’s picture book I read around the late 2000s/early 2010s.
What I remember:
- Thin horizontal/wide paperback picture book
- Soft shaded watercolor illustrations with warm muted/dull colors
- Full illustrated pages with no white background
- Mostly set in a classroom/playroom
- One giant detailed scene per page/spread
- The toys were VERY important:
- wooden block-style people
- wooden animals/farm animals
- wooden toy farmers/figures
- The children started out normal-sized
- As they played, the illustrations shifted perspective so it felt like the children were inside the toy world at the same scale as the wooden toys and animals
- It wasn’t literal magic/fantasy, more like imaginative pretend play shown visually
- I think one child started playing first and the other kids slowly joined in
- At the end, the children are napping/resting and the perspective returns to normal, showing the toys scattered around the classroom floor again
- The art style was soft watercolor with rounded children and cozy muted classroom colors
- It felt almost like looking into a giant living dollhouse/play scene during pretend play
It was NOT:
- Richard Scarry
- I Spy
- a board book
- a search-and-find book
- mainly about a farm
- fantasy/magic based
Does anyone know this book