Reddit mentions: The best children theater books

Not in any particular order, but any of these would be perfect for your young 10 year old aspiring student of magic! None of these will break your bank! :


The Magic Digest by George B. Anderson I picked up a used copy of this book 5 years ago for around 2 dollars. In my opinion, you should acquire a copy for your son for cheap before the prices go up! Don't worry about getting a pristine/good copy, my copy is in "acceptable" condition, but that doesn't take away from the secrets and advice it holds. It's an old book, but it's excellent! It is filled with solid advice for magicians of any age and very solid magic all throughout. It still falls into the realm of a "beginners" book, but I'm definitely not a beginner in magic but was still blown away by its content! Most of the tricks are self working, some use very basic sleight of hand that is also expertly taught in this work. This is truly a book I wish I could have had earlier on in my study! I simply can't recommend this enough!


Big Magic for Little Hands: 25 Outstanding Illusions for Young Magicians by Joshua Jay Despite his young age, the author Joshua Jay is without a doubt one of the most knowledgeable and thoughtful students of magic that I've encountered over the years. This book is a fantastic example of why I have this opinion about him! I picked this up a year ago for one of my co-workers kids that loved watching some of the magic I do. I was humbled to have my co-worker tell me that because of me and some of the tricks I taught his father, that she too wanted to learn magic. I was so humbled that I wanted to do her father and her a solid and get them both a quality magic book that was suitable for a 7 year old. I got wind of this and ordered it. After reading half the book over the weekend before handing it to her father the following Monday, I was so inspired and blown away by the content in here that I ordered a copy for myself to study also. The magic and advice in here is that solid and it I don't care if it's targeted at young magicians! I still learned from it! Fantastic!


Magic: The Complete Course by Joshua Jay There is a nice mix of basic sleight of hand and self working tricks in this big book for an outstanding price! The magic taught in here is top notch and this book encompasses many, many areas of magic! Heck, they even tip a way for an aspiring magician to make something like an Invisible Deck, which is considered by many top professionals to be one of the best "special decks", with a common household item. I've tried it myself and it works beautifully in a pinch! This book even comes with a DVD to accompany some of the amazing content in this work!


The Magic Handbook by Peter Eldin This holds a special place in my heart! I believe it was 1988 when my grandmother gifted me this very book when she thought I was "outgrowing" my Fischer Price magic set. This book is outstanding and it's easy to tell that Peter Eldin has a deep love and respect for magic as an artform. There is only a few basic sleights in here, but don't let that scare you or your son. I was 5 when I started learning a lot of this stuff and thanks to the clear illustrations and text, I had very little trouble learning basic card handling from this as well as ways to conceal a coin. One of the highlights for me in this was a very unique handling of a classic coin trick known as "The Miser's Dream". Your son will have the ability to seemingly and continuously produce coins out of thin air and get this...without sleight of hand technique....This version is still a "go to" for me...Need I say more? :D

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Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic This book truly lives up to what the title promises. I would be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive course in magic for 15 bucks! Sponge Balls, Cards, Coins, Mental Magic, Stage Illusions that can be made at home, solid advice from a legend, information that I haven't found elsewhere, among other things! This book will keep both and your son busy for a long, long time! Self Working tricks, basic sleights and tricks to accompany them, great methods, inspirational food thought. I simply wouldn't feel right not recommend this to anyone who loves magic!

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Karl Fulves "Self Working" Series: All of these are dirt cheap and worth any students time and study regardless of age or experience! Collect them all or simply pick a subject that your son favors! This series encompasses mental magic as well as magic with cards, coins, numbers, paper, rope, handkerchiefs, and household objects! Any one of these will serve your son well.

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Scarne on Card Tricks and Scarne's Magic Tricks I would recommend getting both of these together. There are hundreds upon hundreds of quality tricks from some of magic's legends including: Paul Rossini, Dai Vernon and Harry Blackstone to name a few! All these tricks were re-worked by those magicians with the help of John Scarne to eliminate most or all sleight of hand while not sacrificing the clarity of effect! These two books are classics for a reason! Highly recommended!


Lots of recommendations here for sure and yes these are all books, but I'll even recommend a fantastic and entertaining DVD for you and your son!


Amazing Magic and Mentalism Anyone Can Do by Jay Sankey 39 stellar tricks that are as fun to learn as they are to perform. Very basic sleight of hand tricks and even some self working ones taught by one of my favorite teachers, Jay Sankey!


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For little kids, books like Goodnight Moon, The Velveteen Rabbit, Mama Do You Love Me?, the Corduroy Bear Series, the Beatrix Potter books (Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Mr. Tod, etc) are all amazing. Also The Poky Little Puppy, The Original Winnie the Pooh books, and Paddington Bear are all great.

Magic Tree House is a good series for 5/6+.

Get an anthology of Grimm's Fairy Tales for ages 8+. Percy Jackson and the Olympians books are good to introduce Greek Myths to kids. As they get older, a Shakespeare anthology for children, like this one can be really awesome as well. My aunt got books like these for me to introduce me to classic literature as I grew up.

Hope this helps!

How old is he?

1. Get him Joshua Jay's Complete Course in Magic. It's super easy to read, has great photos, and covers card magic, coin magic, stage illusions, and tons of other stuff. Joshua also has this book for kids.
   
   
2. Royal Road to Card Magic is a book that starts with cuts and shuffles then progresses to card magic in the manner most helpful for building skill.
   
   Also get him several decks so he can tear them up practicing.
   
   Bicycle is the most universal brand. 808 Rider backs are the most common. So if he practices with those then he'll be great if someone hands him a deck at a party.
   
   They're sold in "bricks' of 12 for cheap (compared to $3.50 a deck at Walmart).
   
   
   So for like $40 you can start him on an amazing journey.
   
   
   

I used to have this awesome collection of "short-short" SF stories that I just adored. They were each one to two pages. These days they call that kind of thing "Flash Fiction." Maybe start with something like that?

And if you can "hook" yourself again, go to slightly longer short stories. Don't force yourself to read an entire book at one go until you feel less discouraged.

One of my favorite short story collections is "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Oh, and it occurs to me you might try to read some graphic novels/straight up comic books. There are a lot of great ones out there. In fact, in the 8th grade, we read Othello in graphic novel format. This was a great help in following the storyline and a key to understanding Shakespeare at that time.

I read this version of the Merchant of Venice the other day. It was interesting - the artist had modernized the setting and some of the language, along with streamlining the story, but it seemed a pretty decent adaptation. If I taught high-school English (instead of elementary-school science) I'd certainly share it with my students alongside the original.

I also once read this version of The Magic Flute (the Mozart opera, not the Smurfs), which was okay - this one looks much more artistic, though.

Joshua Jay has some great material for kids, some of which is DIY. Magic the complete course is great and has a kids section. He also has a book called Big Magic for Little Hands which has tricks for kids to learn how to do if you are maybe into teaching them something.

Magic: The Complete Course https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761149872/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_uNKtxbE5PTNRP

Big Magic for Little Hands: 25 Astounding Illusions for Young Magicians https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761180095/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7OKtxb1Q9HCK8

Unfortunately cursed child was never released as a book, it is a play. And you can get the plays dialog, a play script. A good read though.

Amazon link to said script:

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production https://www.amazon.com/dp/133821666X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Qvu4AbQ9B11Y3

Happy Birthday. Would love to read this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/133821666X/?coliid=I2CZV1N6DQ0VGE&colid=2D4EJWHGG2DEN&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

this book is pretty awesome. You could read one story per class as an intro or outro.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Masters-Sweet-Ladies-Medieval/dp/0763650943

Six years old?

With respect to the earlier poster, I disagree: keep your son away from YouTube. If you don't want to go the traditional magic kit route, how about a book?

Check out Josh Jay's "Big Magic for Little Hands." (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Magic-Little-Hands-Astounding/dp/0761180095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511750111&sr=8-1&keywords=big+magic+for+little+hands).

Good luck!

1. Amateur Magician's Handbook by Henry Hay. Out of print; you'll need to get with a used book shop to get the number of copies you'll need. You'll want reading copies; it isn't a rare book so the prices should be reasonable.
   
   Then choose from among:
   
   The Klutz Book of Magic
   
   Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic
   
   Joshua Jay's Magic: The Complete Course
   
   Consider: Big Magic for Little Hands for your younger campers.
   
   Give everyone a copy of the free ebook, Under/Over
   
   Have copies of Bobo and Royal Road in the camp library.
   
   
2. I wouldn't know. Please consider instead performances from the close-up gallery at the Magic Castle.
   
   
3. Grand Illusions: The Story of Magic
   

You wanted FILM versions! Sorry! I'll leave my original comment up just in case.

Here is a short kid-friendly version on YouTube. There are a few links on this video's sidebar that might be good for kids, too.

Books

The Shakespeare Can Be Fun! series is always my first recommendation for kid-level and kid-friendly editions. Hamlet can be found on Amazon.

You could also try this book, but I'm not as familiar with these editions.

Big Magic for Little Hands by Joshua Jay is a fantastic book! Most public libraries have a copy but if not https://www.amazon.com/Big-Magic-Little-Hands-Astounding/dp/0761180095

https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Magic-Secrets-Simple-Tricks/dp/1892147084

Just typing "kids magic tricks" and "kids magic trick books" turns up several options. I'd also encourage her not to be discouraged just because there aren't girls in the books she got. That's setting up for being disappointed and giving up later. Maybe make your own magic video after she's learned a few tricks and put it up on Youtube? So she can blaze her trail?

4.3/5 on GoodReads.

>What happens when the time travelor is a bad guy who doesn't get Dumbledore's warning and changes things for the worst (for the bad guys)? Any fics like this would be appreciated.

I'd recommend my personal favorite fanfic, The Cursed Child.