here's a post I've been meaning to write for a long time,
about Mary Norton's "The Borrowers" - a book series, one of which I was lucky enough to read as a child (translated to the Hebrew in the excellent "Marganit" children's books library, which published greate books, such as Roald Dahl's 'Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory', Michael Ende's 'Momo', and many others).

The borrowers are tiny people, descendants of the "human beans", and they live under the floorboards or in other hidden spaces in the big people's (us) houses. they borrow stuff from the big people to furnish their houses, and the way their house is described was delicious for me as a child:
Homily was proud of her sitting-room - the walls had been papered with scraps of old letters out of waste-paper baskets, and Homily had arranged the handwriting sideways in vertical stripes which ran from floor to ceiling. On the walls, repeated in various colours, hung several portraits of Queen Victoria as a girl; these were postage stamps, borrowed by Pod some years ago from the stamp-box on the desk in the morning-room. There was a lacquer trinket-box, padded inside and with the lid open, which they used as a settle, and that useful stand-by - a chest of drawers made of match-boxes. There was a round table with a red velvet cloth, which Pod had made from the wooden bottom of a pill-box supported on the carved pedestal of a knight from the chess-set.
the first book's plot revolves around the relationship formed between the borrowers' daughter and a normal boy visiting the house where they live.
if you want to know more, click here or copy paste this link to the Wikipedia entry about the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers

PS - I'm dying to re-read this book, I'll have to add it to my Traxtuff Wishlist.

Yonatan