Smith, Samuel Patrick: Big Laughs for Little People ©1990 Samuel Patrick Smith; SPS Publications Hardcover, w/dj, 6.5x9.5", 202 pages ©2003 (revised) In softcover Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 251 pages

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Comments: How to Entertain Children with Comedy and Magic

Contents: (from Revised Edition ToC, updated Jan 2022)

7 Dedication
9 Acknowledgements
13 Introduction

21 Getting Your Act Together
23 Is It Appropriate?
23 The Good Stuff
25 Magical Happenings
25 Winning Them Over
28 Working with Audience Helpers
33 Silence—In a Children's Show?
35 On the Other Hand
36 Sensible Nonsense
39 The Department of Redundancy Department
41 You Can Say That Again!
43 Return Engagements
45 Repetition Is the Mother of Skill
46 Picking Props
46 Packing Props
48 Handle with Care
51 Right in Your Own Backstage!
52 Saying Good-Bye
53 Making Improvements
56 Getting Help
57 Just the Facts, Please!
59 Occupational Hazards
60 Believe!

63 Volunteer Support
65 Headband Blendo
77 Super Frog
93 The Vanishing Candle
103 Snake Cake Bake
113 Jasper the Friendly Ghost
125 Skip It! (Cut & Restored Rope)
138 How to Cut & Restore a Rope

147 You're On Your Own
149 The Magic Knot Tube (Blow-Tie)
157 The Extra-Celestial
167 Tricky Bottles
175 Invisible Flying Silk Scarf
183 Polar Thermometers (Chinese Sticks)
187 Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Strat-O-Sphere)
195 Maxwell the Monster (Soft Soap)

203 Worth-Control Skills
205 Multiplying Billiard Balls
215 Basic Billiard Ball Sleights
231 Cash Surprises
239 Coin Sleights

245 Conclusion
252 About the Author

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