Everyone loves magic — and any one who reads this book and follows its straightforward advice can be a popular home magician!

Here are the best and easiest tricks to start with, each one a real mystery. Every prop needed to perform them can be found at home or can be bought for a quarter or less. There is no hard "sleight of hand" — all the tricks have been simplified so anyone can do them.

Right on the first page the author gives away a trade secret: It's not tricks that fool people, it's magicians! And this book shows how to be a real magician, not just someone who knows how tricks work. It describes exactly what to do and what to say to make tricks turn into magic. There's even a complete stage-size magic show to put on at home.

Enticing pictures and diagrams make the easy-to-follow instructions crystal-clear.

Publisher recommended: Grades 3 -5

From the dust jacket