Magic tricks ; with illustrations by Jill McDonald
Norman Hunter
Paperback
(Penguin, March 15, 1972)
The magic in this book will not enable you to turn your school teacher into a chocolate cream frog, or cause a mighty palace to arise in the back garden. But it does show how to perform exciting, amusing, mysterious and somewhat joyous conjuring tricks, to enjoy your friends and cause them to think you no end of a clever chap (or girl, of course). It also shows you how to have a bit of fun making some of the things used in the tricks, without also making too much mess. Norman Hunter, who conjured up the Professor Brainstrawm stories for you, has included several tricks that he performs in his own Chinese magic act, which he lets off under the name of Ho Wat Fun.