Abracadabra!: Fun Magic Tricks for Kids - 30 tricks to make and perform (includes video links)

by Kristen Kelly, Ken Kelly, Colette Kelly (Photographer)

Overview

• 100% 5-star reviews don’t lie: this is the "best choice": "a lot of pictures", "links to videos", "we can do ALL tricks with stuff we already have", 30 "awesome tricks" that will get grown ups "stumped", "PERFECT" to "not only learn" but also "put on their own show"!
• Ages 7 and up, and co-written by child-magician Kristen Kelly!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510702974
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	06/21/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	25 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Kristen Kelly is an eleven-year-old who has been surrounded by magic all her life. She won her local talent competition, Warrington’s Got Talent, at age six for her magic show. She lives in Warrington, England.

Ken Kelly has been a professional magician for over thirty years, ever since he received his first magic set from his grandmother at age six. He co-runs the blog MagicTricksForKids.org where he shares his passion for magic with other young magicians. He lives in Warrington, England.

Colette Kelly, wife of Ken and mother of Kristen, adds her own magic touch to MagicTricksForKids.org with her photographs, videos, and graphic design. She lives in Warrington, England.

Editorial Reviews

06/13/2016
British magician Ken Kelly and his 11-year-old daughter, Kristen, introduce 30 magic tricks described via step-by-step instructions; photographs taken by Ken’s wife, Colette; and online videos that readers can access via QR codes. Several tricks make use of everyday items like coins, drinking glasses, toothpicks, and vases; others require paper props readers can cut out of the book, such as a paper lady that can be used to replicate the classic cutting-someone-in-half trick. Kelly explains terms like “misdirection,” “gimmick,” and “sleight of hand” and discusses how audiences will perceive successfully performed tricks. The text is sometimes repetitive (“Think of all the candies you can eat during practice! You’ll have the best excuse ever to eat tons of candies”), and the book’s design is bare bones, but this is still a solid guide for magicians-in-training. Ages 7–up. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"A solid guide for magicians-in-training." —Publishers Weekly

"This animated, upbeat collection should disappear quickly from . . . shelves." —Booklist

"A solid guide for magicians-in-training." —Publishers Weekly

"This animated, upbeat collection should disappear quickly from . . . shelves." —Booklist

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