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    This document provides Jim Kleefeld's suggested reading list for performers of kid shows. The list includes 11 books that cover topics like child psychology, techniques for entertaining children, core kid show routines and bits, managing audiences, and designing magic acts. The list provides sources for learning props, tricks, and routines that are effective for entertaining younger audiences. The document also notes Jim Kleefeld's own books and online column that offer valuable information for kid show performers.

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    This document provides Jim Kleefeld's suggested reading list for performers of kid shows. The list includes 11 books that cover topics like child psychology, techniques for entertaining children, core kid show routines and bits, managing audiences, and designing magic acts. The list provides sources for learning props, tricks, and routines that are effective for entertaining younger audiences. The document also notes Jim Kleefeld's own books and online column that offer valuable information for kid show performers.

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    This document provides Jim Kleefeld's suggested reading list for performers of kid shows. The list includes 11 books that cover topics like child psychology, techniques for entertaining children, core kid show routines and bits, managing audiences, and designing magic acts. The list provides sources for learning props, tricks, and routines that are effective for entertaining younger audiences. The document also notes Jim Kleefeld's own books and online column that offer valuable information for kid show performers.

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    JIM KLEEFELD’S

    Suggested Reading List for Kid Show Performers

    1. Paths to Enchantment by Malcom Yaffee. There is simply no book that better explains the why and the what of
    entertaining children. Yaffee defines and analyzes the techniques that work in kid shows and then provides specific
    routines as examples.

    2. Professional Magic for Children and Kidbiz by David Ginn. These teach the core routines and bits of business that
    comprise most children’s shows, taught by the man who legitimized the kid show business.

    3. Seriously Silly by David Kaye. Silly Billy’s well-researched and consciously applied principles of psychology are taught
    through examples from his successful shows. A caveat: The procedures and routines here work best for the very young.
    You will need different material for older school-age and pre-teen children.

    4. Kid Control by Julian Franklin is an absolute must-read for an understanding of child psychology and ways to manage
    audiences and individuals on stage.

    5. The three volumes of Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic, contrary to common belief, are not just about silk tricks; they
    contain rich treasure troves of apparatus magic and give a deep understanding of a wide variety of both classic props and
    commercial effects.

    6. Edwin’s Magic, Volumes One, Two, and Finale document the many props and routines of prolific creators Edwin
    Hooper and Ian Adair, whose Supreme Magic Company literally built the acts of many kid show workers around the
    world.

    7. How to Create Kids’ Magic and Triple Your Income by John Breeds, despite the overly ambitious title, is packed with
    great routines and ideas on working for children. It also contains great general information about the business of
    performing shows, including marketing, promotion, audience control, sound systems, and more.

    8. Performing Magic for Children by Uwe Schenk and Michael Sondermeyer is a very strong book that covers many
    important aspects of performing for children, from lighting and seating issues to controlling adults in a children’s
    audience. It discusses how to approach different ages of children, how to design an act, and even presents two complete
    acts as examples.

    9. Trevor Lewis Uncut is a compilation reprint of the kid show master’s Party Pieces books with lots of fun children’s
    routines.

    10. Jack Hughes’s World of Magic (three volumes) and Eric Lewis’s three Miracles books both give examples of classic
    props and apparatus. Although many of the tricks are aimed more at general stand-up performers, many current and
    standard kid-show props have their roots in these designs and principles.

    11. Jim Kleefeld’s theme show series of ebooks include Bug Magic, World Magic, Dream Magic, Water Magic, Halloween
    Magic, and Dig into Magic. Each book presents dozens of original tricks and routines for kid show workers, routines for
    commercial effects, reviews of kid show props, and artwork for creating your own tricks.

    [Note from Michael Close: For the past three years, Jim Kleefeld has contributed a column to M-U-M magazine – Not
    Just Kid Stuff. The information it offers is extraordinary, and it is of value to all performing magicians, not just kid-
    show performers. If you are a member of the S.A.M., I urge you to track down these columns and study them. If you
    are not a member of the S.A.M., the information Jim provides is worth a hundred (if not a thousand) times the cost of
    membership. With your membership, past issues are available online.]

    To find Jim Kleefeld and his great products online go to:


    http://www.jimkleefeld.com/JWKbooks.html

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