The Magic Shop

A totally new kind of reference book, The Amazing Magic Fact Machine features an extraordinary device-the magic finger-that answers questions about everything from plants to technology. Simply point the finger at a question on the left-hand page, then find the corresponding answer on the right. Complete with full-color photos and captions, this fun-filled resource book contains literally hundreds of facts about the human body and its surroundings.

Numbers, cards, coins, and shapes: with these, and a few mathematical principles, you'll turn into a magician! Just gather a few very ordinary, easy-to-find items (paper, pens, a calculator, dice, pennies, scissors), practice your patter a little, step in front of an audience--friends, family, maybe even your teachers at school--and prepare to amaze them. Guess the number someone will choose; try some math telepathy; make Mobius strips out of paper, and move "from one end to another"--a routine that uses a stack of cards for a very unique effect. Do an "incomplete prediction," a trick that seems as if it's going wrong.until you produce a surprise ending. Every one is easy to master-but no one else has to know that!

Ms. Frizzle's class challenges Mr. O'Neatley's class to a science contest with amazing - and magnetic - results.

This book deserves a place alongside the many wonderful tricks that James Randi has pulled off in his amazing career. He's gotten 24 of the finest magicians in the world to contribute favorite tricks to this collection. Some can be done with little or no practice, others will take some rehearsal. All are fiendishly clever and many are very funny besides. Contributors range from David Copperfield to Penn & Teller. Plus, of course, the Amazing Randi himself. Randi also treats readers to profiles on the contributing prestidigitators. Grab this book and prepare to bedazzle and deceive.

This book is appropriate for ages 9 to 12 years. Mystify your friends and family with a repertoire of amazing tricks that will keep 'em guessing. Let magician Ron Burgess show you the "how-to's" of being a great magician! Put the three basic rules of magic to use for immediate success to: choose and make your perfect wand (your choice of wand can make or break you as a magician!); perform using "magician speak" as you keep the "patter" going to distract your audience from your magical manoeuvres; master a complete repertoire of over 30 fool-proof magicians favourites - tricks with money, scarves, rope or playing cards; tricks with household items, like spoons, rubber bands, or drinking glasses; trick using special, easy-to-make props so you can make items - or a person - vanish before the audience's very eyes!