by Garry Parsons (Illustrator), Garry Parsons (Illustrator), Matt Edmondson (Author), Garry Parsons (Illustrator)
A showstopping quirky gift book for budding magicians, filled with mind-blowing removable magic tricks. Prepare to be amazed!
Elliot is mad about magic. Completely and utterly mad. It's all he talks about, all he thinks about, and even all he dreams about! And it's not surprising, because magic is in Elliot's blood. His great grandfather had once been known as The Greatest Magician in the World and Elliot is desperate to follow in his footsteps. But it's tricky when the only magic book in the library is missing half its pages, and there's no one around to teach you.
But all that's about to change when Elliot discovers a long lost letter from his great grandfather and embarks on a magical adventure that could change his life forever!
Be bamboozled by the Mind-Reading Pants Trick, or wowed with the Disappearing Object Trick! Written by former professional magician and TV and radio star Matt Edmondson, and illustrated by the bestselling Garry Parsons, The Greatest Magician in the World is an incredible interactive novelty gift book featuring a brilliantly witty and exciting quest story, a cast of personality-packed magicians and everything you need to perform seven jaw-dropping magic tricks. Abracadabra!
Format: Picture Book
Pages: 48
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 05 Oct 2017
ISBN 10: 1509806180
ISBN 13: 9781509806188
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years
Book Overview: Join aspiring boy magician Elliot in his quest to find The Greatest Magician in the World, in this fantastically funny magical adventure, including seven removable magic tricks to perform - the perfect gift for young magic fans!
Matt Edmondson is a broadcaster, writer, producer, board-game inventor and former professional magician who regularly performed at parties, weddings and corporate functions. He started his career as a presenter on CBBC over a decade ago and since then he has presented Channel 4's flagship youth strand T4, and hosted Fake Reaction, TV OD and The Xtra Factor for ITV2. He has written and presented online series for both The Apprentice and The X Factor and he also took part in the BBC's Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief. Matt hosts a weekend show on BBC Radio 1 and the ITV2 show Release the Hounds. Although no longer a performer of magic, Matt still has a huge interest in the field. He is a member of The Magic Circle, and regularly annoys his wife by trying to show her card tricks. His love of magic is clear in his fantastically funny children's book The Greatest Magician in the World, a picture book adventure full of jaw-dropping tricks for young magic fans.
Garry Parsons studied Fine Art at Canterbury and has an MA in Sequential Design from the University of Brighton. Illustrator of the smash-hit Dinosaur that Pooped series of books written by McFly's Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter, Garry's artwork also regularly appears in magazines and newspapers in Britain and the USA including Vanity Fair, The Times, Men's Health and Marie Claire. Garry also produces illustrations for advertising and has worked for Proctor and Gamble, Affinity Foods and Harrods. He was listed in The Bookseller as one of 2015's Top Ten bestselling children's illustrators in the UK. Garry lives in London.