Easy Mind Body Tricks (Beginner Magic)

Amaze your friends with clever illusions and mind-reading feats. This book includes clear, step-by-step instructions for a variety of simple mental and physical tricks. Use the helpful tips and suggestions and, with practice, you'll soon be putting on a fantastic magic performance.

The Beginner Magic series successfully provides an array of tricks with step-by-step instruction that is both easy and fun to follow. The illustrations in some magic books can be puzzling, but these ink-and-color drawings are particularly clear, with two shots often shown to the reader: one depicting what the audience sees, the other the magician’s view. In Easy Mind and Body Tricks, audiences watch magicians read minds (using simple number tricks), stretch body parts, and control audience members’ bodies. Each book features a good introduction, “Magic Secrets” with advice from real magicians, and boxed helpful tips. The colorful and attractive format makes a point of showing young magicians of various ethnicities, so everybody can get in on the hocus-pocus. Grades 3-6. --Ilene Cooper