Ginn, David: Kidshow Magic Kompendium ©2017 David Ginn, GA Hardcover, no dj, 8.5x11", 544 pages

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Comments: over 900 color photos. Part history, part autobiography, and all kids magic.

Contents (from product brochure, numbers are not page numbers):

Be-GINN-ings

Chapter One: Comedy Warm-ups
1. Tape Measure Wrist Watch
2. Blooming Blossom
3. The Big Button
4. One HOT Book
5. Sixth Finger Countdown
6. Jumbled Numbers Silk
7. Eric Buss’ Phoney Magnet
8. Primary Colors and the Big Bird
9. Middle Diddle Silk
10. Ladybug on a Rope
11. Star of the Show…and Other Sponge Tricks
12. The Big Red Hand
13. The Toss-up Cube
14. Flip Flop Spots – Imagination!
15. Bookworm Puppet
16. Eric Sharp’s Rabbit Opener

Chapter Two: Visual Magic to Music
1. The Color-Filled Kidshow
2. Beautiful Blendos – Kids Love Them!
3. Stripes Blow Blendo
4. Elephant from a Top Hat
5. Cut and Twirl Rope
6. Candles Between Your Fingers
7. Ultra Tube Streamer Production
8. Sponge Balls from Silk
9. The Cane Can
10. Fantasio Candle to Silk Streamer
11. Kansas Twister
12. Harold Taylor’s Dove Pan Secret
13. Feather Flowers from Somewhere
14. Cagey Canister and Cascading Jewels
15. Balloon Bunny

Chapter Three: Why, How, Where
1. Where Did It Come From?
2. Seven Ways to Control Children
3. Working Preschools
4. My Easy Stage Back-Drop
5. Repetition and Running Gags
6. Kids Love Spring Snakes
7. Amazing Snake-Go
8. How to Correctly Use the Breakaway Fan
9. Mandragola Bush
10. Halloween at My Front Door

Chapter Four: Talking Comedy
1. The Balloon Glove
2. Carrot Culprit
3. Christmas Canes
4. Hot Flip Flops
5. Stretching a Rainbow
6. Gene Gordon’s Little Patterisms
7. Presto Clock Vanish
8. Charlie’s Dilemma
9. Blue Phantom in the Library
10. Mystery of the Pyramids
11. Five Brick Pick-Up
12. Jumbo Three Card Monte

Chapter Five: One Kid Helper
1. Wax in a Boy’s Ear
2. Mutilated Parasol, One Time Only
3. Puzzle Knot with a Helper
4. Pluto Planet
5. Shrek’s Brother? Bongo Hat A-Ginn!
6. Eternal Rings with Kids
7. Picture Fun, the Chicken Trick
8. The Russian Dolls & Nest of Boxes
9. Baffling Boomerangs
10. Giant Mis-Made Flag Revisited
11. Grant’s TV Card Frame
12. Unwrapping King Tut
13. Burn That Shoe!
14. Alice Through the Looking Glass
15. The Big Black Hat

Chapter Six: Two Kid Helpers
1. Jumbo McCombical Deck
2. David Goodsell’s You’re the Star
3. Rainbow Change Bag
4. Flying Colors
5. Ring in a Ball of Yarn
6. Credit Card Coke
7. King, Queen & Enchanted Necklace
8. Chinese Washing Machine
9. Doctor Zolar’s Chair Suspension

Chapter Seven: Group of Kids
1. The Versatile Sand Frame
2. Animal Pictures Game
3. Magic Coloring Book and Crayon
4. The Money Auction
5. Match Them for Us EGYPT!
6. Three Cup Monte
7. Quack-Quack the Mind Reading Duck
8. Pieces of Eight — Edwin Hooper

Chapter Eight: Close-Up for Kids
1. Disbanded Thumb Loops
2. The Free Card Trick
3. Ron London’s 2-to-1 Yarn Trick
4. Magical Coin Balance
5. Penny, Penny, Quarter?
6. Bobo’s Slow Coin Vanish
7. Vanishing Salt Wherever You Are
8. Magic Belt Hook
9. Wonder Fool Box
10. Bob Carver and the Flying Eagles
11. The Mummy’s Finger
12. The 20 Checker Game — Adapt!

Chapter Nine: Storytelling
1. Put Me in the Zoo!
2. The Best Water Suspension Ever
3. Purple Orange Eater
4. Chair Rope Escape
5. The Dragon Poem
6. The Secret Red Can of Abba-Watoosi
7. Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea

Chapter Ten: Working for Kids
1. Educating Children with Magic
2. School Stories
3. Guns, Knives, and Peanut Butter
4. Wanted / Reward Poster
5. Birthday Party Shows

Chapter Eleven: Adults on Stage
1. Queen Cleopatra and the Stolen Pearls
2. Linking Rope Loops
3. Germaine Ring with a Teacher
4. The Key-R-Rect Shoe
5. Money Signs & Questions
6. Block and Cord with Two Teachers
7. The Alaska Trip
8. Comic Book Covers

Chapter Twelve: Older Kids
1. Hot Book for High Schools
2. Danger Tricks
3. Thumb Cuffs
4. Two-Hole Wrist Chopper
5. Granny’s Egg Beater Card Trick
6. Milking a Glove
7. Clem’s Bill in Lemon
8. Spike Arm Illusion

Chapter Thirteen: Closing Tricks
1. The Newspaper Tree
2. Magic Trash Cans
3. Table Cloth Stunt
4. Rabbit Vanish Production
5. The Rabbit House
6. Rabbit After the Show
7. Closing Your Show

Epilogue & End Matters
I. My First Big Break
II. My Video Guide
III. Mentors and Friends
IV. Thank You’s to All!
V. It’s Not Over
VI. Index
VII. DG Book List
VIII. In Memory of Jeremy