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Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards - Book

Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room.

The clearest, easiest-to-follow book of step-by-step directions, The Amazing Book of Cards will show anyone how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay, the award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of Magic: The Complete Course, The Amazing Book of Cards combines friendly, concise text and full-color photos with a full-length DVD that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Here are simple, killer tricks, like "Presto Prediction," which performs the impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she even makes it. Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle, the one most often used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a split deck together in seconds. How to perform fans, flips, and flourishes, including Ribbon Spread & Flip and Catch-a-Deck. Tricks you can't lose-go ahead, take the bet to throw a card in a hat. How to memorize a deck in less than ten seconds, how to put a deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a card castle, and more. Filling out this labor of love is a whole world of card trivia, including the origins of Kings: King of Spades is modeled after King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, Hearts is Charlemagne, and Clubs, Alexander the Great.

Pages: 200 - Softbound

Price............…$16.95

Seriously Silly by David Kaye

A complete guide to performing magic for children. New York's top kid show magician, Featured on television, in newspapers, and magazines, shares his secrets of success. Featuring six never-before published routines, 27 secrets of funnier routines, 7 essays, plus 21 tips to keep parents from talking during your show! All this and more allows you to work more, and make more money!

-Turn your show into non-stop laughter with the techniques you'll discover only in this book.

-Learn the psychology behind children's behavior and how to apply that to a successful show.

-Unlock the top 10 keys to performing memorable children's magic.

-Get the secrets to making parents laugh too, so you get hired again and again!

-Discover simple steps that make kids demand you for their party.

-Understand the differences in performing for different aged children.

-Six steps to getting the most entertainment from a child volunteer.

-Solving the tip 19 problems of performing for children.

This is the first time David has released his routines to the magic community. These are his favorite routines form his hugely successful show. These will be the funniest routines you have ever performed.

-Five minutes with a Milk Pitcher that will change your show completely.

-The funniest Mis-Made Flag routine you have ever seen.

-Win your audience over with a charming routine to perform with very shy children, even 3-year olds can be stars with this trick.

-Step-by-step instruction on how to create your own hilarious routines.

David Kaye is a full-time professional magician and writes a monthly column about performing magic for children in MAGIC magazine. His shows have been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, and even the Late Show With David Letterman. He performs more than 300 shows a Year!

What People Are Saying:

"You could fill a book with what I don't know about doing magic for children. As it happens, David Kaye, master of magic for the miniature set, has done just that and far more. He has written a terrific book full of eye-opening ideas about 'how to entertain children with magic and comedy,' as the book's subtitle plainly labels it. Quite possibly the smartest book ever written about that form -- be it hobbyist, part-timer, or full-time professional. But having read it I can assure you that there is no magician on the planet, no matter your specialty, who will not derive immeasurable if unexpected benefit from reading this book."
- Jamy Ian Swiss, Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine

"David Kaye is the real deal. He has been a professional children's entertainer for more than 18 years, and during that time he has performed more than 7,000 shows. David has now assembled his thoughts on kid's show magic in a marvelous book titled Seriously Silly. This book may well become the definitive resource on this type of magic. Seriously Silly is a tremendously valuable book, containing insights that only come from years of experience. For the kid's show performer, it is indispensable. ...Highly recommended.
- Michael Close, MAGIC Magazine

"There is no book regarding the performance of magic for adults that is the equal of David Kaye's Seriously Silly. The psychological insight the author has regarding his young audience is staggering. Seriously silly offers lessons in performance and psychology that every performer, whether working for children or adults, can use to greatly enhance their shows. I don't publish many books these days, but I had no choice here: Seriously Silly is the best book ever written on how to perform magic effectively."
- Richard Kaufman

Price............…$57.95

Counthesaurus Jon Racherbaumer

Included in this book are 81 detailed descriptions to perform sleight of hand tricks such as:

All-Alike Count, Biddle Count, Broken-Up Elmsley Count, Everchange Count, Fingertip Rhythm, Gemini Display, Ghostover Count, Hamman Count, Jimmy Cricket Count, Kosky Count, Marfoe Count, Neo Jordan Count, Omega Count, Pinch Grip, Razor-Edge Pivot Count, Six-Card Repeat Count, Smile Count, Tokagi Turnover Coun, Unlimited Count, Vesser Concept and much more!

208 pages. Spiral bound.

The Magic of Paul Potassy

The Magic of Paul Potassy, or "How to live like a millionaire with just six scarves, thirty razor blades, and a great haircut!"

This newest publication covers the act of World Class magician Paul Potassy. This is not merely a record of a remarkable performer's repertoire, but a template for other commercially minded performers.

Paul's entire show, with all the performance details and script are meticulously described. His Sympathetic Silks, razor blades from mouth, pickpocket sequence, newspaper tear, book test, and encore card stab are all included, along with much more!

Hardbound with full color dust jacket, 6x9, 220 pages. Published by H&R Magic Books.

Price.…..............$58.95

Professional Magic For Children David Ginn

This is a definitive textbook on the subject of entertaining children with magic, written by David Ginn, who has made his entire living as a kidshow magician for over 33 years.

Professional Magic for Children has influenced magicians and clowns around the world for over 25 years. This book is based not on theory, but on the author’s own performing experience of doing some 400 shows yearly at schools, libraries, churches, and family venues.

In these pages David Ginn discusses his philosophy of doing magic for children, the mechanics of his shows, and his methods of dealing with kidshow audiences. Furthermore, he details over a dozen successful routines, including Instant Art, Mis-Made Flag, Clatter Box, the Snake Can, Arrowhead, Stocks of Zanzibar, Ching Soo Firecracker, Disecto, the Boy to Rabbit Illusion, and Duke’s Dye-Version.

Yes, 28 years later, these routines still work and still play to entertain!

A special bonus of Professional Magic for Children is David’s detailed discussion of working birthday parties, complete with a description of his two birthday party magic shows. Any magician or clown who enjoys entertaining children with colorful, laugh-filled magic is sure to relish in these pages.

Price.…..............$24.00

50 Tricks with a Thumb Tip Book

A compilation of tricks using the amazing Thumb Tip. A definite must to go along with your Thumb Tip. The book contains very useful ideas, routines, and insight to the many things to be done with this super gimmick.

Still just a TWOONIE At this price, you can't afford to pass it up!

Price…………$2.00