Kronzek, Allan Zola: Grandpa Magic ©2018 Allan Zola Kronzek, Workman Publishing, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 194 pages ISBN: 978-1-5235-0105-2

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Comments: Illustrations by Kyle Hilton. "116 easy tricks, amazing brainteasers, and simple stunts to wow the grandkids".

Contents (from book ToC):

ix Introduction

2 Part 1 Presto! It's Magic!

2 Getting Started Easy Tricks For The Younger Set
3 A Big Surprise!
6 Doris the Dancing Dot
8 The Adventures of Ronnie the Rubber Band
8 Part 1 Ronnie Leaps
11 Part 2 Ronnie Jumps a Fence
12 Part 3 Ronnie Climbs a Mountain
15 Part 4 Ronnie Takes a Nap
17 Bonnie the Bunny
19 E-Z Thought Stealer
20 May the Force Be with You
22 Grandpa Feels the Vibes

25 Fun With Drinking Straws
26 The Telekinetic Straw
28 The Magnetic Straw
30 Creepy Crawly
31 The Great Straw Escape
33 That's Disgusting!

35 Fun With Coins
36 The Human ATM
41 More Ways to Make Money Disappear
41 The Pinch Vanish
43 The Snap Vanish
44 The Shoe Vanish
47 The Midas Touch
50 The Melting Pennies

53 Fun With Cards
54 The Man with the Magic Fingers
57 Just Say No
60 The 21-Card Trick
64 The Laws of Magic
68 The Aces Know

72 The Great Zucchini And Other Mental Mysteries
73 The Great Zucchini
73 Act 1 Zucchini Divines an Object
75 Act 2 Zucchini Divines a Famous Person
77 Act 3 Zucchini Does a Card Trick
80 Tho Ten-Card Mystery
83 The Psychic Kid

88 Part 2 Strange Amusements

88 More Fun With Money
89 How to Make a President Happy or Sad
91 How to Turn Washington's Head into a Mushroom
93 How to Make a President Stand on His Head
95 How to Balance a Quarter on the Edge of a Dollar
97 How to Make George and Abe Change Places
100 How to Link Two Paper Clips Together
102 The Dollar Drop Challenge

103 Dining Table Diversions
104 How to Bounce a Dinner Roll off the Floor
106 How to Make a Dinner Roll Float
108 How to Change a Fork into a Knife
111 How to Destroy and Restore a Spoon
114 How to Swallow a Knife
117 How to Balance Two Forks on the Rim of a Glass
119 How to Make a Spoon Cry
121 How to Balance a Soda Can on Its Edge
122 How to Float a Styrofoam Cup

124 Napery Nonsense
125 How to Stretch a Napkin
126 How to Hypnotize a Napkin
127 How to Turn a Napkin into a Chicken
130 How to Make Napkin Cat Ears
132 How to Take a Napkin Curtain Call

133 Look Ma, All Hands!
134 How to Remove Your Thumb
136 How to Shrink Your Pinkie
138 How to Stretch Your Arm
140 How to Hypnotize Someone's Fingers
142 How to Turn Over Someone's Without Touching It
144 Two-Finger Karate
146 The Contrary Circles Challenge
147 The Floating Finger Illusion
148 The Cloned Finger Illusion
149 The Hole in the Hand Illusion

152 Part 3 Brainteasers Perplexing Puzzles and Other Cranial Challenges

152 Brainteasers Verbal Puzzles With Surprising Solutions

153 Level 1 Easy Peasy
153 The Dog and the River
153 The Elevator Enigma
153 The Hospital Visit
153 Jumping Jane
154 Escape from Prison
154 Robert's Mom
154 A Boy on a Ladder
154 The Cowboy
154 Coal Carrot and Scarf
154 Marathon Man
154 The One-Way Street
154 A Ball Toss
154 The Forbidden Photo

154 Level 2 Watch Your Step
154 The Ice Cream Parlor
154 A Lost Brother
155 Two Trees a Lake and an Island
155 The Duck The Fox and the Grain
155 Apples and Oranges
155 Two Ropes
155 Uptown and Downtown Trains
156 Hens and Eggs
156 Cats and Mice
156 The Intersection
156 Three Bulbs and Three Switches
156 The Locked Box and the Crooked Bellhops

157 Level 3 Tough Problems With Easy Solutions
157 The Mountain Climber Problem
157 The Castle and the Moat
157 Name That Tune
158 The Tennis Match Problem
158 A Tricky Train Problem
159 Riddles for the Small Set

160 Coin Conundrums
161 Kinetic Coins
162 Six-Penny Stumpor
163 The Triangle Inversion Test
164 Jarrow's Penny/Dime Dilemma
166 The Five-Coin Twister
168 The Eight-Penny Jumper
169 Nine Coins Ten Rows
170 Martin Gardner's Heads or Tails Divination

171 Toothpick Tantalizers
172 Move Two to Make Two
173 Add Three to Make Five
174 Move Two to Make Four
175 Move Three to Make Five
176 Move Three to Make Four
177 Five Square

179 Three Classic Puzzlers And Other Cranial Challenges
180 East/West Swimming Fish
181 The Giraffe
182 The Goalposts
183 The Stack of Pennies
184 The Pencil Palm Inversion
185 The Mighty Toothpick
186 The Three-Cup Challenge
188 The Impossible Knot
190 The Ten-Cent Problem

191 Acknowledgments
193 Bibliography