A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.

Step-by-step instructions for performing numerous magic tricks, using materials and props that can be found around the house.

Provides instructions for sixteen simple magic tricks using matchboxes, marbles, scarves, coins, rope, and other items. Includes tips on practicing, choosing a costume and a name, and performing.

A guide to magic and enchantment discusses magic-makers, shape-changing spells, wishes, and secret worlds, and includes folk tales from Ireland, Norway, and the Middle East.

Tortall's spymaster, George Cooper, cleans out his office and finds letters, notes, character profiles, family papers, and more that reveal the secrets of Tortall. Includes a timeline.

Casey the cat does magic with his hat and pulls different rhyming things out of it.

"A guide to Ancient Egyptian deities and creatures and Carter and Sadie Kane's world of magic"--

"Welcome to the Apprentice Academy. Congratulations on your acceptance to one of the world's finest institutions for sorcery. Your course of study here will be long and perilous, but this book of sorcery skills and fascinating tales from the world of magic will help you along the way - ideally with all your limbs and wits intact. Learn how to: Read minds! Prophesize! Perform a love spell! Choose an animal familiar! Turn anything into gold! Summon...

The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook is a beautiful, elegantly designed reference that details all of the known spells cast in the Harry Potter films, books, video games and card games, as well as official Harry Potter spinoffs, such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Each spell is given its own entry including spell name, pronunciation details, a description of the spell effect, spell casting methods, wand movements, hand movements...

When her father leaves to save people from a giant who turns them to stone with his gaze, a child in a red dress is left alone. Many days and many nights go by. Every evening the girl says good night to herself in her mirror. When the last light burns down, the girl takes her mirror and a knife and sets out to find her father. "I will save my father from the giant," she says. The Stone Giant is a contemporary and timeless fairytale that tells of a...