ABANDONED. Children/Picture Book, Guy builds a window frame

[INFraud]

When I was a kid in the 90's, I loved this picture book. It would be great to use in my children's counseling program I run now; however, I cannot seem to find the title of this book no matter how or where I ask.

It is a book about this land of people (not humans, kind of like... gender-neutral creatures) and the one guy creates a like look-through or peek-through or view-through- it is like a frame, but he looks at the world through it. He doesn't like to hold it up, so eventually he builds a wall to hold it up. Then all the different people keep building up the wall all around and he ends up leaving the view frame and someone patches it up ... like, plasters wall over it.

So he wanders the halls for days looking for his window, almost forgetting the outside and the color of the sky and the smell of the air, etc. then he eventually hears the wind blowing through a crack in the wall and he realizes it is his window- so he breaks through it and gets out.

[Ayshe]

There is another similar sounding thread (unsolved yet): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Do you think it's the same book?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

INFraud, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

INFraud (OP) was last active on the site in March 2020.