Since the days when stories written in papers and ink quills, there have been many stories and fairy tales about heroic young male characters born the size of a thumb, mythical realms inhabited by giants and/or tiny people, and sometimes even a bit of both.
Fairy tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk features the young main character Jack climbing up the beanstalk into a cloudy land inhabited by giants. A common trope among Tom Thumb-styled fairy tales, such as the eponymous story and the Japanese legend of Issun-boshi, features a consistent story of a poor peasant couple wishing for a child, and is granted with a boy born the size of a thumb. It also features the tiny boys getting eaten by gigantic beasts and giants.
Literature novels such as Gulliver's Travels features two separate islands each inhabited by the diminutive Lilliputians and the giant Brobdingnagians. May Norton's The Borrowers series, and John Peterson's The Littles series both feature miniature people living in the walls of an inhabited home who borrow and/or steal from the occupants.
For the sake of argument and variety within the Literature Books route, which of these stories will you choose?
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