Big Magic for Little Hands: 25 Astounding Illusions for Young Magicians

This book is good. I’ve got a lot of magic books but have had a tough time finding tricks to teach my kids who are 4-5. They’re pretty little but they see me performing and they want to do it too! Most of the tricks involve props that you can make from stuff around the house or a trip to the craft store. I like that there is a lot of arts/crafts involved in the effects. It helps the kids make the tricks their own, incorporating the secrets and test them out. This isn’t the stuff they teach kids in school! There’s good material here for many age groups and as they get older, we’ll be able to do more complicated things. The book is well written and the instructions are clear. I was glad to find this book and am excited to turn my kids on to some fun stuff that they can build and do!

I am in my second semester of teaching a magic class. When I saw this book that Joshua Jay wrote, it had to be good. I have been a member of the Magic Castle since 2004 and have seen magic of all kinds. From children's show to the big illusions and met hundreds of magicians. The kids in my class liked looking at the book and I think some will be purchasing it. It covers many magical effects from close to stage magic.

Little pricey, but bought for my grandson who has an interest in magic. He was interested in reading this book.

If you have a child showing an interest in magic, this is a great book to get them going. It's a large book, well made (hardcover version) with loads of photos and step-by-step instructions.

My 10 year old suddenly developed a love of magic after seeing her first magic show on a Disney Cruise. This book has great tricks for kids who really want to learn magic. It’s not the simple junk tricks you buy in the little kids magic box set.

This book covers much of the different 'types' of magic. It even shows some illusion building. Great book for young magicians to learn the basic principals of magic! My husband has been a magician for 50+ years, and is very selective on what he gives the young people he meets that want to learn magic. He bought one of these for our grandson, and has had me order FOUR MORE for other friends' children.

This was a birthday gift for my 9 year old grand daughter (she is very bright and an advanced reader). She told me it's the best book I've ever given her (and there have been many). She has been interested in magic for a few years and regularly puts on magic shows for me. She said this book had much more information than she has gotten from her several advanced magic kits.

We were learning magic for our first time as adults and we're going to teach 5 and 6 year olds to perform magic and have an actual performance at the end of the week. I really thought this book would help us but most tricks were more complicated than we wanted to do. The book is big in size, really too big for little hands to hold but the Magician Oaths, the illustrations and font of the book were very easy to see and read. I would recommend for an 8 or more year old child.

Bought for Grandson who is eleven and loves magic. He has already started practicing.

Nice book and fast delivery form seller.

I bought this, as well as the “yet to arrive” Magicians Hat, gloves & wand and am giving it to brothers aged 6 & 10 for Easter.They live hands on games and this will be something the whole family can have fun with. And once they have the tricks down pat, they’ll be amusing everyone they can.

This is a great book for beginners. My Nephew loved it!!! He performed one of the tricks in the book Christmas Day and blew everyone out of the water. We still can't figure out how he did it!!! Also, was suppose to arrive late, after Christmas, but amazon got it to me in time.

Beautiful book a d really age appropriate. Can't Wat to be amazed by my neice