Collis, Len: Magic Tricks for Children ©1989 Crocodile Books Ltd, UK Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 95 pages ©1989 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Text and illustrations ©1989 David Booth Ltd

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Comments: Beginner's book of magic with some very basic tricks but also some using more advanced apparatus, such as the card box, switch envelope, and tapered deck.

Contents (from book):

3 Introduction (Len Colis)
4 Warning

7 Making Your Props
9 Make A Magic Wand
11 Make A Magic Spell Book

15 Magic For Friends And Parties
17 The Memory Card
19 Two Little Blackbirds: finger trick
22 The Swinging Bottle: shoelace suspends in bottle
25 The Baffling Balloon: instantly changes color
27 The Chicken Thieves: using candles
29 Simon Says: matches come together in a cup of water
31 Match Play—1: matches from an empty box
33 Match Play—2: broken and restored match
35 The Magic Cereal Box: empty box becomes filled
38 The Great Newspaper Carve-Up: cut and restored

41 Magic With Special Apparatus
43 The Double-Sided Envelope
45 - Crying Baby: routine for the envelope
49 - Getting Over The Chicken Pox
51 - Sawing A Lady In Half
53 - Squaring The Circle
54 - The Emperor’s New Clothes
58 The Tapered Deck
60 - Mind Reading
62 - The Heavy Kings
64 - The Amazing Choice
67 The Magic Box: a flap box
70 - Card Predictions
73 - The Chocolate Box
75 - The Bull And The Tramp: full routine

81 The Magic Of Numbers
83 The Magic Of Numbers: math trick
84 Two's Company
85 As You Were
86 Freaky Family
87 The Amazing Number Nine
89 The Amazing Number Nine Again
90 The Amazing Number Nine Yet Again
91 The Mind Boggier
92 Odd Nineteen
93 Spot-On: with dominoes
94 How Old Are You?