Every two years, the Movable Book Society honors the very best in paper engineering through its Meggendorfer Awards program. The 2021 awards unusually covered a three-year period due to the pandemic, and this season we see the awards starting to reflect an increasingly international flavour in the short-listed titles. The winner of this year’s top prize was the 3 metre-long Chinese architectural title Opening the Forbidden City, crowdfunded by paper engineer Wang Wei. The other seven finalists provided strong pop culture representation with two massive blockbuster 3D dioramas from Insight editions for the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises (both engineered by the amazing Matthew Reinhart) and one for the card game HearthStone (engineered by last season’s winner Simon Arizpe). Two children’s nature titles feature, with French offering Six Little Birds (Bernard Duisit) and the summery seaside Shells (Yoojin Kim, the fifth title in the delightful 4 Seasons series), alongside a Christmassy entrant with a retelling of Hoffman’s classic The Nutcracker (Yevgeniya Yeretskaya). The final shortlisted title is an unusual non-fiction entrant from private press Poposition Press, Dimensional Cannabis, which features six spreads, each of which has been designed by a different master of paper craft.