While many children's books are a gentle nudge to marvel at the everyday, to see the magic in the mundane, some of the best conjure an enchanting vision of the world and plunge readers straight in.
In its enchanting vision of bucolic pleasures and the sensual joys of romantic love; its beautiful Ferdinand Hérold score (adapted and considerably expanded upon by John Lanchbery); and its charming countryside designs by Osbert Lancaster, Ashton's work is a masterpiece with the lightest of touches.
Despite all the preparations that took place, nothing could predict the staggering beauty that results from the strange and enchanting vision of a domesticated floral arrangement floating through the unbridled Milky Way.
Anachronistic and enchanting, the vision of these exotic beasts being herded through the concrete canyons never failed to produce a shiver of excitement in even the most jaded bystander.
The novel abounds in metaphors of submerged worlds and, in the child's mind, visions of underwater elves and enchanting forest maidens derived from Czech fairy tales (Czech phrases are sprinkled throughout the text) coexist with the image of a spooky but all too real crypt, in which seven resistance fighters hid after the famous attempt to assassinate the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich.
Yours affectionately, Ken My dear Ken, Now the war is over, I am finding it difficult to get anything published, other than the enchanting causerie you wrote of my Moments of Vision.
"Our visions should be so sparkling and enchanting that they inspire us, pull us out of ourselves and make us want to grow," Trask writes.
"Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban" is an ambitious exhibition of his enchanting watercolors of opera scenery and movie sets, three-dimensional models of theater decor and photos of buildings and houses.
They don't explain so much as offer an enchanting, elevating or disturbing experience, sometimes giving off bright future visions and sometimes warning us about where we should not go.
Painted a year after Chagall first went to Paris, I and the Village, on this month's cover, integrates elements of cubism with his own vision of the world, "Lines, angles, triangles, squares, carried me far away to enchanting horizons".
The enchanting production now at Two River Theater Company has flaws, but none of them arise from Mr. Wright's masterly, affectionate vision.
