GIANT BOOK OF CARD TRICKS - Softcover

Amaze, amuse and astonish all your friends! With a little sleight of hand and the secrets behind hundreds of card tricks, you'll leave audiences dazzled every time. Become an expert at sneaking a peek at a card without anyone noticing. Practice doing those slippery shuffles, cuts and hand movements that fool an audience and really make your show magic - including eight different ways of controlling a card. Try out inventive stage patter and witty wisecracks that will win over the crowd. Then choose from the the eighty card tricks explained and demonstrated to find the ones that you like best: prediction; transposition; estimation; gambling; mind reading; set-ups; All-ages appeal for both juvenile and adult readers. Card tricks and magic are cool again thanks to street-wise TV entertainers such as Paul Zenon.