Book In Review

       Simple Sleight-Of-Hand, Card and Coin Tricks For The Beginning Magician is a nice book that teaches the simple moves that all budding magicians need to learn. 

       This book was written by Paul Zenon and it was published in 2008 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.    Simple Sleight-Of-Hand is one of the books in a series of books on magic.   There are three other titles in the series, Gimmicks and Card Tricks (Illusions for Intermediate Magicians), Cool Card Tricks (Techniques for those Advanced Magicians), Magic of The Mind ( Tricks For The Master Magician).

       The book has word descriptions, hints and techniques as well as photo illustrations to help a student of magic learn both verbally and visually.  This book will teach simple “tricks” that will impress the young magician’s friends and family, with it’s “Wow, how did you do that; factor!” 

        The author has alot of television experience with his magic and has even had his own show.  There are loads of websites that are referred to in this book including:  http://www.magiccastle.com, http://www.magic.org, http://www.magictimes.com, http://www.magictricks.com, as well as the publishers referral link:  http://www.rosenlinks.com/am/ssha.