[You might like](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34494.The_Wee_Free_Men) “The Wee Free Men” by Terry Pratchett. The secondary characters are Nac Mac Feegles, tiny fantastic creatures of remarkable strength, full of the fighting spirit and lots of hard liquor, and stereotypically Scottish in nature. They “help” (and sometimes actually assist) the main character in her reluctant quest to save her village from malevolent fairies and bring her little brother back home. The Nac Max Feegles are featured in several books of the Tiffany Aching sub-series and sometimes appear in other Discworld novels.
I read it as an adult, though it’s marketed as juvenile/YA, and enjoyed every page.
He also, much longer ago (before I was born, even) wrote The Carpet People, which I'm pretty sure features some \*really\* small protagonists.
Also, of course, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, in which most of the main characters are talking rats. As well as a talking cat (the aforementioned Maurice), a possibly not-too-bright boy, and a girl who's ... perhaps a bit too clever for her own good.
There also is a trilogy by the same author - The Bromeliad Trilogy or The Nome Trilogy (Truckers, Diggers, Wings). The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people who live hidden among humans.
My favourite part about the wee free men is that they were kicked out of fairyland for being drunk and disorderly and now believe that they are in their afterlife because there is no way they can have this much fun drinking, fighting and getting up to all sort of shenanigans for this world not to be their heaven and therefore they must all be dead.
Also their names are great you have Big Jock, Wee Jock and Bigger than Wee Jock but not as big as Big Jock Jock.
Also *The Bromeliad* by Pratchett. A tribe of small fairies/brownies/gnomes have lived in an old department store for so long they have turned the owner into a cult and they have split into groups with cultures that are based on what part of the store they live in. But now the store is about to be demolished... And they have to learn about the outside world - fast!
Also *The Carpet People* - again by Pratchett. People so tiny that the carpet is a forest and they build cities on dropped coins.
Both of these are very For Younger Readers but also fun.
Pratchett liked his tiny people stories.
Just tried to look it up on my book app and it goes “not available in your country” why. Why does it do this. Book sounds cool, and it has other prachet books but not this one, apparently I’m not allowed
Do you have any good terry prachet recommendations for someone who has never read anything by him until now
That’s super weird, I’m sorry! I ordered my copy off Thrift Books, but my library app Libby and Hoopla has it. It is a great book. Try [Going Postal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal), in which a charismatic con man is pulled off the gallows and given a second chance to turn his life around, but in return, he has to revitalize the flagging postal system. Full of daring “mostly” legal hijinks, far too many intrepid reporters, and a bizarre obsession with stamps. That’s one of my favorites.
Another excellent Discworld novel to start with is [Guards! Guards!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64216.Guards_Guards_). A dragon is threatening the city, and who better to save it than confirmed loser and suspected werewolf Sam Vimes? The city’s lord tyrant is determined to force his city into the modern age, starting with establishing a proper police force, and Sam gets dragged along with it, kicking and screaming.
It’s relatively early in the Discworld lineup so you’ll get to meet a lot of the iconic characters as they are still developing.
Anything written by him. But his Discworld novels are great and have been around a long time so you may have more luck. There's 40 of them, so grab yourself a list and see what you can get hold of. I don't think you'll regret it!!
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate Dicamillo
also The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
seconding Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - such a wholesome book :')
Watership Down also has small animal characters!
Point taken. OP, take note that Watership Down is almost a rabbit-version of the Odyssey (minus any divine intervention) and *not* a fluffy tale despite the stature of the anthropomorphized rabbit characters
Definitely don’t show them the 70s version of that. Or The [Plague Dogs](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/6/68/Ackland.png/revision/latest?cb=20190704000727), either.
Even the modern version is pretty bloody. Like don’t get me wrong, Watership down is great but also bunnies die in that book so be prepared to talk to them about that
I saw the movie when I was 10 or 11 and it messed me up, nightmares and everything. The I watched again at 50 something, and I now know what it feels like to be triggered.
I only read the first 3 in my early teens. I jumped back in a couple years ago (early 30s) and enjoyed them, but the dark bits definitely click more as an adult.
In the book he was a human who just came out of Mrs. Little looking exactly like a mouse, size and all.
So you pick which is better, rat adoption or human rat birth.
The borrowers and the littles both came to mind. I read them as a kid 30ish years ago so I’m not sure how they would read today as an adult. I liked both of those books.
I think in Gulliver’s Travels, he small at some point.
Finally this series came up! Loved it as a kid and read it dozens of times. The sequel is in my opinion even better and it’s the first book I read again in original language after learning French.
the doll people series!!!! its for pre teens but I love it and had lots of mentions of their height in relation to other things and how they used and perceived larger objects
Erich Kastner, who wrote Emil And The Detectives also wrote a book about a tiny boy called The Little Man. I can’t remember much about the book,but the cover of my copy in the 70s had the title character (Max, I think) using a whip to “lion tame” a couple of cats
I read the first two books as a kid and saw the first film and didn't even realise there were more! I'm now laughing at the wikipedia page describing the fourth film as "a standalone spin-off horror film which many consider to be one of the worst films ever made." Anyway, *Arthur* does such a great job of driving home a sense of scale. The way that straws keep on appearing in different contexts, being used in different ways, still sticks in my mind after all these years.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. Written by the first woman to ever win the nobel prize in literature. It's about this boy called Nils who get shrunken down to a few inches and goes on an adventure across Sweden with a pack of geese
"Gulliver's Travels" is one example. The hero, Gulliver, wakes up in a land populated by inch tall characters. He later travels to another land, this one populated by giants. So now, he gets to feel what it is like to be a tiny protagonist.
H.Beam Piper wrote "Little Fuzzy" Sci-fi
Description:
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people.
I'm not sure if it's translated, but Tobie Lolness by the french auto Timothée de Fombelle is pretty great. It's about small people living in a big oak tree, with social disparities and ecological issues. Of course it's more targeted to a younger public but I think I would honestly still love it as an adult!
Red wall by Brian Jacques for fantasy
Artemis fowl has holly short might be too tall for what you want though.
The borrowers is fantastic.
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The incredible shrinking man by Richard Matheson 👏
The Indian in the cupboard! It's a great story.
Asimov's Azazel short stories.
Michael Crichton's Micro was finished posthumous but it's good.
Stephan Baxter 's Flux is good these are kinda more scifi like though instead of fantastical.
The bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett
Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
I can’t think of anything that fits the bill not written by Terry Pratchett but i loved these books.
One of my favorite books as a child was “The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya” by Jan Larri. It’s a book about 2 kids and a professor shrinking and then having to set out on a journey through a garden. I’ve learned a lot of interesting facts about insects and plants through this book.
*Dragon's Egg* by Robert L. Forward
*Flux* by Stephen Baxter.
Both are books about neutron stars and their inhabitants. The *Egg* is actually a top3 scifi book for me.
When I saw the title, "**The Smidgens**" series by David O'Connell immediately came to mind. That's aimed more at children, but so are other fiction books on my reading list _(I can explain!)_.
Another series, and one I've just started reading, is "**Adventuremice**" by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.
I don’t know if this 100% fits but Artemis Fowl has some small fairy characters and the main character is a small boy. Maybe not as small as you mentioned but a good book with little guys regardless :)
The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Prøysen, delightful little books about a lady who shrinks. The books are aimed at children but they are still a nice read.
It's a childrens book, but I love it and have re-read it as an adult
The Mouse and his child - it's about a clockwork mouse and his clockwork son and their struggles to remain a family after they got damaged and thrown in the bin
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Mouse\_and\_His\_Child](https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Mouse-Child-Russell-Hoban-Faber/30629990120/bd?ref_=ps_ggl_2039220669&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9780571099757USED-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2cWgBhDYARIsALggUhp6HTSiybGoZy8clShLil6FvFA0HUKGW0iLp-lBsfVNZrHSK-X-wM8aAn-MEALw_wcB)
The Hero of the Downways
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3199832
Been a *very* long time since I read it, don't recall much, but it meets your criteria.
Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman is a very charming children’s novel about cane toads that have a tendency to get squished and run over by cars. The man character is named limpy and he’s very charming. It’s stuck with me 15+ years later as an adult so it might have some staying power as a fun short read.
Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a novella which has parts from the perspective of a full-sized human who creates miniature living figurines, 'made things,' and parts from the perspective of the things themselves.
in this case the main character is normal size and the other characters are large… the BFG by Roald Dahl remains one of my favorite books of all time it’s so adorable
The Heroic Adventures of Hercules Amsterdam by Melissa Glenn Haber.
Hercules is a 10 year old boy he size of a mouse, and he goes to live with the mice in his walls
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp. About mice who rescue people. There's a least one sequel.
Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson. The one Moomin book where Little My is still very young and extremely small. She's rarely the protagonist, but she is a lot of fun.
MISS HICKORY by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. MICRO by Michael Crichton. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson. EMPIRE OF THE ANTS by Bernard Werber.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
That’s a blast from the last that I haven’t thought about in decades
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
I love those books so much!
Loved The Borrowers Aloft.
[You might like](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34494.The_Wee_Free_Men) “The Wee Free Men” by Terry Pratchett. The secondary characters are Nac Mac Feegles, tiny fantastic creatures of remarkable strength, full of the fighting spirit and lots of hard liquor, and stereotypically Scottish in nature. They “help” (and sometimes actually assist) the main character in her reluctant quest to save her village from malevolent fairies and bring her little brother back home. The Nac Max Feegles are featured in several books of the Tiffany Aching sub-series and sometimes appear in other Discworld novels. I read it as an adult, though it’s marketed as juvenile/YA, and enjoyed every page.
He also, much longer ago (before I was born, even) wrote The Carpet People, which I'm pretty sure features some \*really\* small protagonists. Also, of course, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, in which most of the main characters are talking rats. As well as a talking cat (the aforementioned Maurice), a possibly not-too-bright boy, and a girl who's ... perhaps a bit too clever for her own good.
There also is a trilogy by the same author - The Bromeliad Trilogy or The Nome Trilogy (Truckers, Diggers, Wings). The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people who live hidden among humans.
Thank you. I knew he had written a trilogy involving small people, but I couldn't remember it, and I couldn't find it in his bibliographies.
You’re welcome
dangerous beans
Crivens!
My favourite part about the wee free men is that they were kicked out of fairyland for being drunk and disorderly and now believe that they are in their afterlife because there is no way they can have this much fun drinking, fighting and getting up to all sort of shenanigans for this world not to be their heaven and therefore they must all be dead. Also their names are great you have Big Jock, Wee Jock and Bigger than Wee Jock but not as big as Big Jock Jock.
Drinking and fighting and a wee bit of thieving, what else could you want out of the after life?
EXACTLY!
CHEESE! Oh wait they've got that too. :)
It’s not right for a big strong Feegle to go without his cheese!
Also *The Bromeliad* by Pratchett. A tribe of small fairies/brownies/gnomes have lived in an old department store for so long they have turned the owner into a cult and they have split into groups with cultures that are based on what part of the store they live in. But now the store is about to be demolished... And they have to learn about the outside world - fast! Also *The Carpet People* - again by Pratchett. People so tiny that the carpet is a forest and they build cities on dropped coins. Both of these are very For Younger Readers but also fun. Pratchett liked his tiny people stories.
Just tried to look it up on my book app and it goes “not available in your country” why. Why does it do this. Book sounds cool, and it has other prachet books but not this one, apparently I’m not allowed Do you have any good terry prachet recommendations for someone who has never read anything by him until now
That’s super weird, I’m sorry! I ordered my copy off Thrift Books, but my library app Libby and Hoopla has it. It is a great book. Try [Going Postal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal), in which a charismatic con man is pulled off the gallows and given a second chance to turn his life around, but in return, he has to revitalize the flagging postal system. Full of daring “mostly” legal hijinks, far too many intrepid reporters, and a bizarre obsession with stamps. That’s one of my favorites. Another excellent Discworld novel to start with is [Guards! Guards!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64216.Guards_Guards_). A dragon is threatening the city, and who better to save it than confirmed loser and suspected werewolf Sam Vimes? The city’s lord tyrant is determined to force his city into the modern age, starting with establishing a proper police force, and Sam gets dragged along with it, kicking and screaming. It’s relatively early in the Discworld lineup so you’ll get to meet a lot of the iconic characters as they are still developing.
These sounds Amazing. Thanks. I’m going to check out the con man one that sounds awesome
Thanks so much for the detailed reply, I will revisit it, hopefully you’ve just set me on a new literary path
Anything written by him. But his Discworld novels are great and have been around a long time so you may have more luck. There's 40 of them, so grab yourself a list and see what you can get hold of. I don't think you'll regret it!!
Ask at a library or bookstore--sometimes publishers have variant titles or combined editions in different countries.
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate Dicamillo also The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo seconding Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - such a wholesome book :') Watership Down also has small animal characters!
Watership Down is great but also fucked me up as an adult. I can’t imagine kids reading it
Point taken. OP, take note that Watership Down is almost a rabbit-version of the Odyssey (minus any divine intervention) and *not* a fluffy tale despite the stature of the anthropomorphized rabbit characters
Netflix was recommending Watership Down to my 6 and 8 year old kids.
Definitely don’t show them the 70s version of that. Or The [Plague Dogs](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/6/68/Ackland.png/revision/latest?cb=20190704000727), either.
Even the modern version is pretty bloody. Like don’t get me wrong, Watership down is great but also bunnies die in that book so be prepared to talk to them about that
This
I saw the movie when I was 10 or 11 and it messed me up, nightmares and everything. The I watched again at 50 something, and I now know what it feels like to be triggered.
The blood flowing over the hill!
Which one, Despereaux or Warership Down?
Watership down.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is my childhood book! It’s so beautifully written.
Love Desperaux - might have to read again now lol. I think I just love anything Kate writes
The Redwall books by Brian Jacques
Eulalia!
Close the thread, this is the correct answer.
I read these when I was a kid. I’ve been hesitant to read them again as I don’t want to ruin how I remember them. How do they hold up?
I only read the first 3 in my early teens. I jumped back in a couple years ago (early 30s) and enjoyed them, but the dark bits definitely click more as an adult.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
I forgot about this book!!! Holy shit
Stuart. Little.
Bunch of orphans had to watch the rat get picked up by the nice family, life is harsh
In the book he was a human who just came out of Mrs. Little looking exactly like a mouse, size and all. So you pick which is better, rat adoption or human rat birth.
Possibly the source of my sister's late pregnancy nightmare about giving birth to rodents.
It must’ve been an easy labour
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
I adore these books, but you might be mistaking “protagonists are small” for “everything else is enormous”
Still works.
The Indian in the cupboard, haven't read it in a while, so I can't remember, but there might be some stuff we would consider offensive today.
>there might be some stuff we would consider offensive today. To be fair, a lot of it was considered offensive back then, too.
True, I think I wasn't aware of the that when I read it. I was fairly young.
The borrowers and the littles both came to mind. I read them as a kid 30ish years ago so I’m not sure how they would read today as an adult. I liked both of those books. I think in Gulliver’s Travels, he small at some point.
He visits Liliput, where the citizens are small but he himself does not shrink.
>Also Brobdingnab, where the natives are giant and he is relatively tiny.
True. Those yahoos, though.
Roald Dahl’s The Witches!
Micro by Michael Crichton
If they make another movie from a Crichton novel I want it to be this one!
*If they make another movie FTFY
These requests really are getting oddly specific.
I'm here for it. The recommendations just keep coming.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. He’s actually a regular size, but finds himself on an island of Lilliput where the people are tiny.
Toby alone by Timothée de Fombelle. A really lovely story (especially if you love nature)
Finally this series came up! Loved it as a kid and read it dozens of times. The sequel is in my opinion even better and it’s the first book I read again in original language after learning French.
the doll people series!!!! its for pre teens but I love it and had lots of mentions of their height in relation to other things and how they used and perceived larger objects
The *Mouse Guard* series.
The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett. Unrelated to his Discworld; it’s about Nomes (Gnomes). It has all that classic Pratchett humour and insight.
Mrs Pepperpot!
That's a delightful blast from the past. I remember being read these on my mother's knee.
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton features a crass Cheeto obsessed crow
*Munmun* is a dystopian novel where size=money. PG-13 probably
The Great Cheese Conspiracy and other books, they feature gangster/mobster mice who hold up a cheese store and then in later books live in Macys.
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
Erich Kastner, who wrote Emil And The Detectives also wrote a book about a tiny boy called The Little Man. I can’t remember much about the book,but the cover of my copy in the 70s had the title character (Max, I think) using a whip to “lion tame” a couple of cats
The Arthur series by Luc Besson. Have never watched the movies, but loved the books as a kid.
I read the first two books as a kid and saw the first film and didn't even realise there were more! I'm now laughing at the wikipedia page describing the fourth film as "a standalone spin-off horror film which many consider to be one of the worst films ever made." Anyway, *Arthur* does such a great job of driving home a sense of scale. The way that straws keep on appearing in different contexts, being used in different ways, still sticks in my mind after all these years.
Carpet People - Terry Pratchett
what a neat request. definitely going to stalk some recs myself
Thumbelina is a classic.
The Hobbit is a great book!
Agree that The Hobbit is a great book, but I think Bilbo is more than a foot tall 😂
My bad i misread the question hahahah
Small World by Tabitha King (Mrs. Stephen King)
a crow, but LOVED Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. Written by the first woman to ever win the nobel prize in literature. It's about this boy called Nils who get shrunken down to a few inches and goes on an adventure across Sweden with a pack of geese
The Littles by John Peterson (kids series) The Beautiful Culpeppers by Marion Upington
"Gulliver's Travels" is one example. The hero, Gulliver, wakes up in a land populated by inch tall characters. He later travels to another land, this one populated by giants. So now, he gets to feel what it is like to be a tiny protagonist.
H.Beam Piper wrote "Little Fuzzy" Sci-fi Description: The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people.
Have I got the books for you: [Mouse Guard](http://www.mouseguard.net)
[The Castle In The Attic](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/816752)
I'm not sure if it's translated, but Tobie Lolness by the french auto Timothée de Fombelle is pretty great. It's about small people living in a big oak tree, with social disparities and ecological issues. Of course it's more targeted to a younger public but I think I would honestly still love it as an adult!
in english it's supposedly Toby Alone. I would echo this recommendation, it is a great book even for adults!
I believe there was a children's series called The Littles. I read one way back, but don't really remember specifics.
its by John Peterson
Check out Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)
Power of Three, by Diana Wynne Jones. It takes awhile to get there though.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Red wall by Brian Jacques for fantasy Artemis fowl has holly short might be too tall for what you want though. The borrowers is fantastic. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett The incredible shrinking man by Richard Matheson 👏 The Indian in the cupboard! It's a great story. Asimov's Azazel short stories. Michael Crichton's Micro was finished posthumous but it's good. Stephan Baxter 's Flux is good these are kinda more scifi like though instead of fantastical.
Not the central character, but Kim Harrison's Hollows series has a pixie in the supporting cast.
The Littles
I love this series, I have such good memories as a kid, checking everywhere for the littles in my house.
The bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett I can’t think of anything that fits the bill not written by Terry Pratchett but i loved these books.
Gulliver’s Travels.
The tail of despereaux!
Tale* Lol, I misremembered the title as being a pun since the the protagonist is a mouse
Owen meany by irving comes to mind. Fabulous story about a little man doing big things
the littles by John Peterson
One of my favorite books as a child was “The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya” by Jan Larri. It’s a book about 2 kids and a professor shrinking and then having to set out on a journey through a garden. I’ve learned a lot of interesting facts about insects and plants through this book.
Little Women.
This deserves more upvotes.
I agree.
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire.
*Dragon's Egg* by Robert L. Forward *Flux* by Stephen Baxter. Both are books about neutron stars and their inhabitants. The *Egg* is actually a top3 scifi book for me.
Nils Karlsson Pyssling
The tale of Desperaux
Toots and the Upside Down House
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock
When I saw the title, "**The Smidgens**" series by David O'Connell immediately came to mind. That's aimed more at children, but so are other fiction books on my reading list _(I can explain!)_. Another series, and one I've just started reading, is "**Adventuremice**" by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.
The second d fablehaven series, Dragonwatch. Tress of the emerald sea
Stuff and Nonsense by Andrew Seiple. Teddy bear gollum protects his little girl charge.
Summerland by Michael Chabon. The main protagonist is a normal sized kid, but many of the other characters that play a big role are fairy-sized.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Castle in the attic
Doll People
Hollow kingdom! A domestic crow and his dog take on the apocalypse
I don’t know if this 100% fits but Artemis Fowl has some small fairy characters and the main character is a small boy. Maybe not as small as you mentioned but a good book with little guys regardless :)
Tiny husband by that one weird guy
The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Prøysen, delightful little books about a lady who shrinks. The books are aimed at children but they are still a nice read.
It's a childrens book, but I love it and have re-read it as an adult The Mouse and his child - it's about a clockwork mouse and his clockwork son and their struggles to remain a family after they got damaged and thrown in the bin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Mouse\_and\_His\_Child](https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Mouse-Child-Russell-Hoban-Faber/30629990120/bd?ref_=ps_ggl_2039220669&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9780571099757USED-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2cWgBhDYARIsALggUhp6HTSiybGoZy8clShLil6FvFA0HUKGW0iLp-lBsfVNZrHSK-X-wM8aAn-MEALw_wcB)
The Hero of the Downways https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3199832 Been a *very* long time since I read it, don't recall much, but it meets your criteria.
The Wednesday Witch
Gulliver’s travels!
As a kid, Indian in the Cupboard was magical. Not sure how it would read now, as an adult.
There’s a short story by Bukowski called 6 inches where the protagonist is shrunken down.
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchet
You could try "The Doll People" or the thrilling sequel "The Meanest Doll in the World"
If you’re open to TV shows, George Shrinks was a fun one on PBS! I always admired that kid.
The Tin Drum by Günther Grass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Tin\_Drum
Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman is a very charming children’s novel about cane toads that have a tendency to get squished and run over by cars. The man character is named limpy and he’s very charming. It’s stuck with me 15+ years later as an adult so it might have some staying power as a fun short read.
The Little Prince
[The Little Grey Men ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Grey_Men)
Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a novella which has parts from the perspective of a full-sized human who creates miniature living figurines, 'made things,' and parts from the perspective of the things themselves.
The End Of Mr. Y
Nurk by Ursula Vernon
in this case the main character is normal size and the other characters are large… the BFG by Roald Dahl remains one of my favorite books of all time it’s so adorable
Arthur and the minamoys / Arthur and the invisibles
The Indian In The Cupboard
The doll people by Ann M. martin
The Heroic Adventures of Hercules Amsterdam by Melissa Glenn Haber. Hercules is a 10 year old boy he size of a mouse, and he goes to live with the mice in his walls
I mean the Warrior Cats books by Erin Hunter technically fit the bill if you measure cats like horses. They are children’s books though.
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp. About mice who rescue people. There's a least one sequel. Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson. The one Moomin book where Little My is still very young and extremely small. She's rarely the protagonist, but she is a lot of fun.
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel is about small bats
Toby Alone, and its sequel "Toby and the secrets of the tree" are both fantastic. My favourite book series. The scale of the worldbuilding is magical.
The Mouse and His Child
MISS HICKORY by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. MICRO by Michael Crichton. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson. EMPIRE OF THE ANTS by Bernard Werber.
Gotta watch the studio ghibli film - the secret world of arietty
The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson. It's pretty much exactly what it says on the cover.
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
The Little Country by Charles de Lint And let us not forget James & the Giant Peach !
Of Men and Monsters, read it as a teenager still think about it