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by Greg McMahan (Illustrator), Phil Ackerly (Author)
Phil Ackerly's Magic You Can Do
Using items found around the house, you can perform amazing tricks and illusions to amaze and entertain your friends and family.
Magic You Can Do teaches kids simple, beginner tricks, and basic magic principles to get them started on the road to becoming a successful magician. This book will help youngsters learn a new skill, improve their reading, manual dexterity, public speaking, and give them self confidence.
Learn to do these amazing tricks...
- Find a playing card lost in the deck
- Make money appear and disappear
- Make a knot suddenly appear on a rope
- Know what somebody will do before they do it
- Make a pencil change color
- Present comedy shows for your scout meetings
- Learn to juggle
- Push a coin thru a cloth napkin
- and lots more
With over 50 tricks, gags and routines to learn, you'll have plenty of material to create your very own magic show. There's even comedy skits and juggling lessons
Written for junior magicians ages 8 and up, adults will also find this book perfect for learning simple magic tricks and being a hit at their next party.
Author Biography
Since 1992, Phil has been following his dream by performing amazing magic shows for all ages, from the young to the young at heart. A Bay Area California native, Phil's act has taken him across the country to New York City, Atlantic City, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.
