Kristen & Ken Kelly: Abracadabra!
Kelly, Kristen & Ken Kelly: Abracadabra! Fun Magic Tricks for Kids
©2016 SkyPonyPress.com
Hardcover, no dj, 139 pages

Comments: Children's book of magic includes some surprisingly advanced magic, such as use of double-backed cards, a Square Circle, card to wallet, Out-to-Lunch, and more.

Contents (from book):

vii Foreword (Julian Mather)
viii Introduction: The Real Secret of Magicians

1 How to Watch: each effect has an online video demonstration
2 Anti-Gravity Coin: one coin leaves one hand and joins the two in the other
6 Anti-Gravity Glass: a gimmicked card to balance a glass on the card
10 Anti-Gravity Ring: an IT gimmick to make to have a finger ring travel up a pen
14 Color-Changing Card: clever card trick using a double backer and wax
18 Cup Through Table: instead of the ball going through, the cup passes through the table
21 Cutting a Lady in Half: a paper cutting illusion
31 Drum Tube: production tube
37 Electric Toothpick: a toothpick seems to jump, almost impromptu
40 Floating Glass: rope picks up a glass of liquid
47 Growing Magic Wand: a tiny wand grows to a jumbo
52 Haunted Vase Illusion: a vase is lifted by a rope
56 Healing Rope: three single ropes join to form a single one
61 Key-Bending Mentalism: card trick using the Out-to-Lunch principle
65 Knife-Eating Illusion: a lesson in lapping
68 Linking Paper Clips: paper clips link on a dollar bill
72 Magic Bowling Pin Illusion: Tipsy-turvy bottle but with bowling pins
77 Milk In a Hat: comedy effect and the hat is unharmed
84 Monkey Bar: ribbon jumps from the ends to the middle
89 Mystery Tube: ribbon production from empty cans
95 Rubber Band: rubber band jumps from fingers to fingers
99 Rubber Band and Ring: finger ring rises on a rubber band
102 Rope: handkerchief penetrates a rope
106 Signed Card to Wallet: selected card vanishes from deck and is found in wallet
110 Spoon-Bending Illusion: an illusion
113 Square Circle: build your own from cardboard and a can
119 Strength Tester Optical Illusion: an approach to the boomerang illusion
122 Sticky Magic Wand: sticks to your hand
124 Teledinesis Pen Levitation: another use for your IT pen
128 Unlinking Drinking Straws: one straw penetrates another
132 Vanishing Matchbox: the tray is slid out of a matchbox and the shell vanishes
139 Afterward


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