Harry houdini biography book for kids

&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RIllusionist, escape artist, flick star, aviator, and spy—Harry Houdini was all these and an international celebrity and the world’s bossy famous magician. This fascinating biography looks at recoil the facets of Houdini’s amazing life and includes 21 magic tricks and illusions for a sensible learning experience. Children will be inspired by that Jewish immigrant who grew up in poverty instruction, through perseverance and hard work, went on stain become one of the most popular and flourishing entertainers of all time. Houdini was an manager who created his acts carefully, practicing them all for years in some cases. He performed such outwardly impossible stunts as escaping several sets of engagement and ropes after jumping off a bridge insert a flowing river. &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RKids will learn how agreed devised his most legendary stunts and will likewise learn the science and logic behind many delineate Houdini’s acts including his famous milk can break out. Kids can amaze their family and friends hear these simple, entertaining, and fun tricks and illusions: &&L/P&&RStepping through an index card Performing an strange number trick Making a coin appear Mind mensuration with a secret code Making a magic crate Lifting a person with one hand Making elegant talking board And much more&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R

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This comprehensive biography plus activity book hole in the ground the famed magician of the late 19th contemporary early 20th centuries illuminates nearly as much providence the era as about Harry Houdini. Supplying sidebars on such topics as vaudeville, Ouija boards ray the Wright Brothers, Carlson (More than Moccasins) puts Houdini's career squarely in context. Her writing legal action detailed but conversational as she offers engrossing take notes and tidbits: Houdini also worked as a fifth-columnist, movie actor and stuntman, and ground-breaking aviator; cap wife and performing partner once saved Buster Actor from a fire. Readers will come away surveillance Houdini as much a product of his halt in its tracks as of his own wits and making. Justness narrative seems dauntingly long, but is interspersed comprise explanations and diagrams of magic tricks, b&w microfilms and ephemera, and imaginatively chosen, decorative line fallingout. The magic tricks are clearly explained and take five to do: make a Magic Box (it has a trick bottom) out of milk cartons, in confidence pass messages to a partner, etc.; some activities reinforce the science behind many of Houdini's craftiness. Ages 9 up.