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If you can find them... James Blaylock's Trilogy (The Elfin Ship, The Stone Giant, and The Disappearing Dwarf) is whimsical fantasy inspired by (according to the author himself) Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Brownies and the Goblins by Nathaniel Moore Banta, and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
I never realized I had any whimsy left in me until I recently read these books. They're out of print physically and I've only ever seen them offered as ebooks from Gollancz' SFGateway—which unfortunately means they aren't likely available to US and Canadian customers.
If you like whimsy and you see them in a used book store... by all means, don't be afraid to pick them up.
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