Packed with easy-to-learn illusions, The Great Big Book of Magic Tricks explains how to perform amazing feats with clear, step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations. "Top Tip!" boxes and profiles of famous magicians and their most impressive tricks will captivate reluctant readers, encouraging aspiring magicians to learn and perform card tricks, coin and rope tricks, sleight of hand, and mind tricks to impress friends and grow confidence.

"The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin Gardner Amaze friends, astonish your family, and fascinate any audience by infallibly dealing a royal flush, correctly predicting the outcome of the World Series, unmasking a psychic fraud, and performing a host of other dazzling deceptions. You can do it with the help of this book, one of the best guides to magic tricks that don't require long hours of practice or elaborate preparation. You'll find invaluable techniques — clearly demonstrated with abundant illustrations — for accomplishing magical feats with cards, coins, rope, comedy magic, mental displays of dexterity and much more, as well as expert advice for practicing psychological misdirection and dramatic presentation. Although the tricks in this book require little in the way of props, sleight of hand or a high degree of skill, the effects they produce are astounding. Novices especially will find Big Book of Magic Tricks a wonderful introduction to the art of conjuring but the book is crammed with so much choice new information that even professional magicians can learn something. "This book is quality — the tricks are effective, the methods ingenious, and the advice Fulves gives on presenting the tricks properly is excellent." — Robert Dike Blair

Learn to do astounding tricks with cards, coins, rope; also, comedy magic, mental dexterity, more. Abundantly illustrated directions. 247 illustrations.

Filled with color illustrations and how-to instructions for easy-to-perform tricks and enchanting illusions, both beginning and experienced amateur magicians find hours of pleasure as they read absorbing stories about famous magicians of the past and present.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform magic tricks, including card and coin tricks, along with a history of magicians and what distinctive style or trick they are known for.