Sketchbook planning: magic

Anomie theory.
Diana Wynne Jones.
Kalevala.
Kiran Desai.
Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, & the lost titles & authors of other SF books I read as a kid.
Hans Christian Anderson.

Connecting me at roots level to Hiyao Miyazaki: HCA via the Russian animated The Snow Queen.

My Flash Magic Box.

"Designed to illustrate the magical and mysterious sensations a child feels early on a dark and frosty Christmas morning, the magic box in this Flash movie opens on different scenes and sounds, depending on the number you choose from its menu.  The artwork: the box and its little scenes were stylistically inspired by Arthur Szyk's extraordinary illustrations for the 1945 Grosset & Dunlap edition of Andersen's Fairytales (transl. by E.V. Lucas and H.B. Paull), a book dreamed over throughout childhood. (If you like Szyk's work, check out the resources at the Arthur Szyk Society web site.)" - me, from WindyHill Design's Design Portfolio.

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(What's this about?  It's The Sketchbook Project (2012 edition) from Art House Co-op.)