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It was Brian Selznicks very first book, and Ive been following his. The stand-alone sec­tions put Hou­di­ni into an his­tor­i­cal con­text. Awed by the feats of escape artist Harry Houdini, ten-year-old Victor aspires to be. The many side­bars tell fac­tu­al infor­ma­tion about a myr­i­ad of sub­jects includ­ing immi­gra­tion, child labor in the U.S., old time dime muse­ums and spir­i­tu­al­ists. Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. The book is best digest­ed bro­ken up into small anec­dotes. It is, in fact, jam-packed with infor­ma­tion. Written by Kathryn Kilby Borland and using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of the young prestidigitator Harry Houdini.

The book includes rich archival his­tor­i­cal images and mod­ern illus­tra­tions that fur­ther flesh out Houdini’s sto­ry. This item: The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of Americas First Superhero. Harry Houdini: Young Magician is the next great installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series. The sto­ry touch­es on Houdini’s Jew­ish back­ground he was born Erich Weiss and his father was a rab­bi. It tells Houdini’s sto­ry: his birth in Hun­gary, immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States, pover­ty-rid­den child­hood, devel­op­ment as a magi­cian, per­son­al rela­tion­ships, amaz­ing feats, for­ay into cin­e­ma, inter­est in defeat­ing spir­i­tu­al­ists’ quack­ery and enig­mat­ic death. Harry Houdini Magick Studies Books The Miracle Mongers and Their Methods (Dodo Press) (Paperback) Miracle Mongers and Their Methods : A Complete Expose (. Har­ry Hou­di­ni: The Leg­end of the World’s Great­est Escape Artist is a com­pre­hen­sive biog­ra­phy of the famed magi­cian and illu­sion­ist. Find out how a little boy named Ehrich Weiss became Harry Houdini - the greatest magician the world has ever known This Ready-to-Read book has short.