Magic Secrets: An I Can Read Level 3 Book for Children (Ages 4-8) About Easy Tricks

by Rose Wyler, Gerald Ames, Arthur Dorros (Illustrator)

Let the magic show begin! Presto the magician is about to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Watch closely—the next magician to perform could be YOU! With Magic Secrets , young readers will learn the secrets behind magic tricks to impress friends and family. "Most of the magic tricks presented here are easily understood and appear to be simple to learn and to execute with ample practice. Disappearing coins, rope tricks, a genie in a bottle, and many others provide interesting stunts to amaze and mystify one's friends." (School Library Journal) Magic Secrets  is a Level Three I Can Read book. Level 3 includes many fun subjects kids love to read about on their own. Themes include friendship, adventure, historical fiction, and science. Level 3 books are written for early independent readers. They include some challenging words and more complex themes and stories.

Genres: Childrens, Magic

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Kelly Wickham · Rating 1 out of 5]

Neither Arely or I have any interest in magic tricks, so reading this was like reading an instruction manual that you aren't going to use. It was so boring, technical and dry and felt really long.

[Oz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bizarre layout - text is structured like poetry for no apparent reason - but the illustrations are cute and surprisingly diverse for their time, and the magic tricks delighted me as a kid.

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Accelerated Reader Level 2.9
My boys loved this book. From a kids point of view it may get a five. It is not one you would sit down to read with your children. But for those who can read they would enjoy trying the magic tricks.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is okay. At the beginning students would read about and "see" tricks. The end of the book teaches students how to do their own magic tricks. Students might enjoy this book.