Books on Magic

This is the only all-inclusive guide to magic that includes 500 full-colour, step-by-step photos and a 2-hour DVD featuring 35 effects performed and taught in great detail. You will find detailed instructions for performing over 100 magical effects and no prior skills or knowledge is required. Each trick is arranged on a 1 - 5 difficulty rating system and is broken down into the Effect, the Secret, the Set-Up, and most important, the Performance-with lessons on mastering the emotional hook, what to say, how to direct audience attention, and where to keep your hands. By Joshua Jay.

Making Magical Memories is a book about just that. I think our job as children's entertainers is not just to give kids a good show but to give them some great lasting memories. I still remember seeing a magician when I was a child.

This book has some sound advise on how to advertise your self, Taking the bookings, some tips on staging your show and of course some of my favourite tricks and games straight out of my show. There is nothing here that I haven't used to great success.

I hope you like it and find something useful in it, I'm sure you will.

The Review. Mark Wade.
I have quite an extensive kidshow library and I am proud to add Colin's new book to my collection. I was pleasantly surprised to receive this book. It's filled with good, practical advice and routines from a pro (you can tell a pro a mile..opps kilometer..away!) They KNOW what they are talking about and if you work shows yourself you get the feel this is all audience tested material. I give it 5 stars!

This book is written by Colin Crockwell. Colin has been entertaining since 1969 and specialises in children's entertainment. The book details from setting yourself up in the early stages with publicity, public address and agents, to the actual tricks. This book is a good reference book for the 'new boy' or 'semi-pro'.

Peter Stedman has been in magic for many years as a professional magician. One aspect of his professional life is close up magic, and this is what this book is all about. Not just full of tricks but some things Peter feels is essential to anyone taking up this profession. A must for anyone interested in close up.

This booklet has seven rope an know tricks in it

Edited by Francis Marshall. Close up magicians have eagerly accepted sponge ball magic into their repertoires because it is a favourite of audiences! This book describes many great routines beginning with Goshman's Sponge Routine. Other tricks described include: Silver and Sponge, Passe Sponges, Crandall's Original Routine, Surprise Finish and much more.

Illustrated, softcover, 48 pages.

The author of this successful book is one of the most prolific writers on magic of this generation. Practical hocus pocus has appeared from his pen in all the leading professional magicians' magazines both here and abroad. Milbourne Christopher's book tells you how to do 50 different tricks with the thumb tip. Here are just a few: Burning and Restoring a Handkerchief, Living or Dead Mental Test, Dollar Bill in Banana, Bank Night, Spirit Knots, and more. Each is clearly described and illustrated.

This is 424 pages, fully illustrated. It is known as “The Bible” for magicians interested in “Mental Magic”. Includes Swami Gimmicks, mental tricks with cards, slates, billets, clipboards, blindfolds, Q&A acts, mediumistic stunts etc.
Written by our own Tony Corinda acknowledged as the daddy of modern mental magic.