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Kid's Show Magic

This book features 15 complete routines of magic and comedy, guaranteed to get great audience reactions. You'll read Sammy Smith's complete patter, word-for-word, from start to finish for each effect. You'll learn how to say the patter -- when to pause and what tone of voice to use -- to get the best response. Of course, you'll want to adapt these routines to fit your own personality, but learning from the author's more than 20 years' experience in entertaining children will save you valuable time and give you crucial information on how to get big laughs from little people.

Routines range from original effects to new presentations of classics. You'll read Sammy's handling of time-tested classics such as Cut and Restored Rope, Multiplying Billiard Balls, and Miser's Dream. And you'll find his original effects such as Headband Blendo, all updated from the first edition of Big Laughs for Little People with the latest improvements for the 21st century! In addition to the kid-show routines, Sammy shares his best tips and advice for entertaining children, learned from literally thousands of performances. This is a textbook on entertaining children with comedy and magic which every kid-show performer should own and use. The comments which a prominent children's performer made about the original edition of this book are even more valid with this newly revised and updated edition.
Routines include:

Headband Blendo (new version)
Super Frog
Vanishing Candle
Snake Cake Bake
Jasper the Friendly Ghost
Skip It! (Cut and Restored Rope)
The Magic Knot Tube (updated)
The Extra-Celestial (hilarious puppet routine)
Tricky Bottles (updated)
Invisible Flying Silk Scarf
Polar Thermometers
Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Strat-O-Sphere)
Maxwell the Monster (Soft Soap)
Multiplying Billiard Balls
Cash Surprises (coin routine)
...and more!

With this 208 page 8 1/2" x 11" illustrated book, you will learn to succeed as a birthday party entertainer and enjoy the benefits of owning your own profitable home based business! Everything you need to know to get started in the birthday party business.

by Bruce Kalver

Introduction
Are You Sure You Want To Do Birthday Parties?
Signs That You Will Be A Good Birthday Party Entertainer
How Much Money Can I Make?
Creating An Act For Birthday Parties
What Kind Of Shows Are Parents Looking For
Keeping Their Attention
Creating The Promotional Materials
The Web Page
Refrigerator Magnets
Advertising
The Birthday Party Planner
Birthday Activity Sheet
Birthday Buck Slips
Getting Your Name Out There
Assistant Rewards and Give-Aways
The Phone "Cue" Card
Show Slip / Calendar System
Quote Sheet
Getting Ready for the Show
The Show
Fortune Telling Fish
A Melodrama
Bits and Stunts
Threading A Needle
Gum Fun
The Animal Game
After the Show
Cleaning Up
Thank You Cards
Birthday Card
Don't Do It!
Spoiled Brats
Resources

Children Laugh Louder is now back with some of David Ginn's best routines: the Color Changing Shoelaces, Silk Illusion, Popaway Wand, Comedy Bits with Audience Helpers, Trap Door, Magic Words, Purple Puppy Chow, Dog By That Name, Bowing Contest, Shooting Card Trick, Wilting Flower, Ali Bongo Monster Hat, Freaky's Terror, and the classic Charlie's Invisible Message.

BONUS DVD included: Before anyone was aware of the impact of video, a magician taped David's "50 Ways to Make Children Laugh" lecture in Schenectady, New York, in June of 1978, and gave David a copy. This reprint is now includes a two-hour DVD.

The most intense book David has ever produced on the subject of Kid Shows. Inlcudes 13 routines David uses in his own shows. Pom Pom Pole, Big Red Hand, Jumbo Card On Back, McCombical Deck and much more...

If you do kid shows or are thinking about performing for kids this is money well spent.

Creative Kid Talk by David Ginn, Steve Taylor and Samuel Patrick Smith

Practical Advice on Entertaining Children

Learn how to be the best kids' show entertainer you can be from three of the top professional performers in the field. Pro's David Ginn, Steve Taylor and Sammy Smith share their combined years of professional experience and cover:

Audience Participation
Treating Audience Helpers with Respect
Sucker Tricks for Kids
Entertaining Pre-Schoolers
Working Outdoor Family Shows
Adult Volunteers In Kidshows
Mixing Messages with Magic
New Twists On Old Tricks
Entertaining Adults at Kidshows
and more

Softbound, 144 pages

by SPS Publications

THE FUNNY PAPER is published exclusively for kid-show and family entertainers! Now in its sixth year of publication, The Funny Paper is packed with practical articles on magic, clowning, puppetry, balloons, face painting and other variety arts. In addition to great routines, sound advice, and creative ideas on performing, you'll find excellent articles on the business side of being a kid-show and family entertainer.

This Issue's Contents:

Miles Baker: "Waiting in the Wings" 30 Years of Clown Art
The Subtleties of Phyisical Comedy or "Help! My Finger id Stuck in a Bottle."
Clowning Gone Bad
The Color-Filled Kidshow
Bringing Out Shy Children
Balloon Games
The Art of Practiced Ad-Lib

Pages 64

Live Kidbiz sold out its 2100-copy first edition, but thanks to Sammy Smith the original Live Kidbiz book is now reprinted and includes a DVD!

Live Kidbiz 1 contains a dozen video cuts with a book explaining them all, as follows: Vanishing Coke Bottle, Magic to Rock Music (canes, silks more), Climax Egg Bag, Radio Rabbit (a production you can make), Eye Chart (I can't see a thing! yes, make one!), the Ching Soo Firecracker, Lobster Cards (do it yourself, adapt to suit you), Tricky Bottles, Sun & Moon (I played it in 300 live shows), Arrowhead, Dagger Rabbit Vanish, and Closing Magic to Music, which includes a silk blendo, silk fountain, and a giant flag staff production that brings the children to applause.

Jungle Warm-up using rope tricks out of Tarbell
No Bounce Ball with an audience helper
Disbanded Arm Penetration with a girl from the audience
Go Fish is a do-it-yourself routine with two children and fish pictures
Snake Basket with 2 kids from my jungle show
Easter Egg Count from a pre-school show, 2 kids, plastic eggs, very adaptable
ABC Puzzle with 4 kids, great fun and a strong ending
Wild West Animals
Coke Bottle Rabbit
Sawing in Half and the funniest bit you'll ever see, thanks to Burling Hull
finally the Road Race, Guitar Solo, and the Tablecloth Stunt pulling the cloth from under the dishes!

And its all explained in Live Kidbiz 2: The Master Textbook, 312 pages with over 100 photos and drawings and a DVD

Ginn's "Library of Magic" on Video 5 & 6 include. Balloon Bunny, Neck Twister, Olympic Ring Toss, Movie Posters, Shrinking Glove, Alfred the Card Spider, Banana Bunny, Instant Rubik Cube, Hot Book Warm-up, Pac Man 20" Century, Vanishing Rabbit, Juggling Blowtie Production, Jumbo 3 Card Monte, and more.

If you perform for kids, this extensive book by David Ginn is for you. 244 pages containing all you need to know to produce a successful magic act for children. Mr. Ginn explains what effects are appropriate and how to routine them. Chapters include: Get 'Em Laughing Early in the Show, Audience Participation, That Element of Danger, and a section on working birthday parties. Bits of Business are explained that keep children entertained and mystified.

A complete guide to performing magic for children. New York's top kid show magician, Featured on television, in newspapers, and magazines, shares his secrets of success. Featuring six never-before published routines, 27 secrets of funnier routines, 7 essays, plus 21 tips to keep parents from talking during your show! All this and more allows you to work more, and make more money!

Turn your show into non-stop laughter with the techniques you'll discover only in this book.
Learn the psychology behind children's behavior and how to apply that to a successful show.
Unlock the top 10 keys to performing memorable children's magic.
Get the secrets to making parents laugh too, so you get hired again and again!
Discover simple steps that make kids demand you for their party.
Understand the differences in performing for different aged children.
Six steps to getting the most entertainment from a child volunteer.
Solving the tip 19 problems of performing for children.

This is the first time David has released his routines to the magic community. These are his favorite routines form his hugely successful show. These will be the funniest routines you have ever performed.

Five minutes with a Milk Pitcher that will change your show completely.
The funniest Mis-Made Flag routine you have ever seen.
Win your audience over with a charming routine to perform with very shy children, even 3-year olds can be stars with this trick.
Step-by-step instruction on how to create your own hilarious routines.

David Kaye is a full-time professional magician and writes a monthly column about performing magic for children in MAGIC magazine. His shows have been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, and even the Late Show With David Letterman. He performs more than 300 shows a Year!

A remarkable collection of Trevor Lewis' professional children's magic and comedy, TREVOR LEWIS UNCUT: THE COMPLETE PARTY PIECES, contains an incredible eighty-five routines.

This material is perfect for schools, libraries, and parties. Each routine is carefully worked out for the most effective presentation. You will learn how to create laughs at the right places, include educational points at strategic moments, and bring each effect to the most amazing and satisfying conclusion. In short, this is magic which delights, educates, and amazes children.

Starting in 1978 and continuing for over twenty years, Trevor Lewis released his unique brand of kid-show magic in a series of books which included Party Pieces, More Party Pieces, Still More Party Pieces, Further Party Pieces, Favourite Party Pieces, and Final Party Pieces.

This volume contains the complete contents of all of his books, plus new material”Unexpected Party Pieces”previously unpublished.

The unique wit and style of Trevor Lewis is sure to strike your funny bone, and win laughter and applause from your own children's and family audiences.

Contents of Trevor Lewis Uncut:

The Flowering Bouquet, The Telescope, Take Care, Happy Birthday, The Road Code, Happy Birthday Blind, Tommy's Teeth, Cards Across, Cheers!, The Breakaway Wand, George Blake's The Silver Sceptre, The Safe, T.I.P.S., The Flashlight, Wandering Wand, Magic Painting, Silks from Newspaper, Road Safety Chicken, The Cuckoo Clock, Ditching the Flap, Production with a Message, Twentieth Century Minus, The Flower Pot, Missmade Flag, Cards Across Again, The Magic Umbrella, TV Start, Opening the Show, Abracadabra Rope Opening, Before Cards Across, After Cards Across, Pump Wands, Close Up for Children, Tantalizing Traffic Lights, Beacon Ball, Magic Lesson on Road Safety, Sunday Egg, How to End on Applause, Floppy Flower Opener, Little Wonder Box, The Balloon Routine Competition, Another Mix-Up, The Black Cat, The Clatter Box Camera, Time Will Tell, The Tumbling Blocks, The Pop-Away Wand, Take Care, Children?s Chop Cup, That's Torn It, Up Your Sleeve, The Rainbow Silk Routine, Cane Opener, Kid Glove, The Cotton Wool Necklace, The Adder, Cards Across Conclusion, The Broken Window, It's Curtains!, Freezer Fun, The Beads of Prussia, Mis-Made Traffic Lights, Cigarette Regret, Lesson in Magic, Six Oblivious Students, The Magic Wand Banner, Wand-erful Tubes, The Miser's Dream, Fez Egg Bag, Trevor's Torch (Flashlight Fun), Balloon Business, Honk-Honk, Silly Billy, Wistful Wand, Put Some Life Into Your Die Box, Rabbit Wand Routine, Just in Case, The Magic Bag, The Christmas Box, It's on the Slate, The Magic Lesson, A Helping Hand, Block Buster, Christmas Tree Routine, The Firework Trick, Golden Girl, Road Safety Puzzle.

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