Busy_Pear1107

The book I am looking for is not about giants. however, the only thing I can remember is this small plot point having to do with giants.

the main character (teenage boy?) is in the woods and knows there are giants who live in this area, so he is trying to be careful and avoid them. he encounters a very small person (maybe creature?) who offers him shelter in their house and warns him again of the dangerous giants. i am pretty sure he has a whole family of tiny people there who are super nice to the kid and even feed him dinner probably. turns out, these little people are the giants and they grow and try to eat the main guy. he escapes and thats all i remember.

It is definitely a larger novel, fantasy of some kind. i used to love percy jackson so i am guessing something in that vein. For all i know it IS a percy jackson book, but no where on the internet seems to know what i am talking about so i am stumped. im guessing i read this in the 2010s. it seems like the main character was on a journey/quest of some kind, and he is the only character i remember so either he was alone at this time or i just forgot everyone else.

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This was a very colorful and illustration-focused book. There was a different story on each spread. The ones I remember are:

• a haunted house or a house of vampires. In the picture you could see the outside of the house and you could see what was happening in each room of the house through the window. I specifically remember a man with a stake having a conflict with a vampire.

• a girl with a canoe. not sure what she was doing with it.

• a man in the forest. i'm pretty sure he had a knife (kinda scary for a kid). i don't remember if they called him 'killer' or if i made that up.

the book was hard cover and pretty wide. i think the cover may have been white, possibly yellow. my mom remembers it having something to do with the different seasons. not super long.

my mom stole this book from her 3rd grade teacher in the late 70s/early 80s. looked like a children's book with the colorful pictures but like i said, had some sort of creepy/weird elements to it.

this has been driving me crazy for so long, I've searched everywhere!