magic tricks

Readers will learn how famous illusionists trick their audiences, then discover how to create their own illusions, making squares twist, straight lines wiggle, and more.

Readers will follow simple instructions and photos to make cards levitate, coins multiply, and more.

A comprehensive guide to magic that explains the secrets behind more than one hundred and twenty magic tricks--which includes tricks that involve cards, matches, rope, silk, thimbles, and money--and describes the history of magic and instructions to perform a variety of close-up tricks, optical illusions, and mental magic tricks.

Shows how to perform tricks using simple props such as coins, safety pins, matches, rope and string, keys, or even sugar cubes, that, with the mastery of a few straightforward handling techniques, can keep an audience spellbound.

Jack and Annie tracked down all the best tricky magic tricks and put them together. With simple instructions the kids can learn to show their own magic tricks to their friends and family.

"Amateur magicians Duncan and Emma are forced to come clean to police about their involvement in their small town's biggest disaster, which all started when they discovered that legends about the local witch might actually be true"--Provided by publisher.

"Eight-year-old aspiring magician Oliver and his rabbit sidekick Benny must solve a mysterious robbery to save their act"-- Provided by publisher. Includes directions for performing a card trick.

Presents Harry Houdini's own descriptions of his daring escapes and the fraudulence in the spiritualist movement, and includes instructions for more than forty stage tricks.