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Reading is Magic! January 2024
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Counting elephants
by Dawn Young
A lively math primer depicts a frustrated young girl whose efforts to count 10 elephants are stymied by a trickster magician's inclination to make the trained pachyderms turn into other things, including a frog, a rabbit, and peanut butter and jelly.
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Milo's hat trick
by Jon Agee
Milo the Magnificent's magic act isn't so magnificent after all, until he meets a bear who teaches him the secret to the perfect hat trick.
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Magic box: a magical story
by Katie Cleminson
When Eva receives a cardboard box as a birthday present, she becomes a magician, complete with a wand and a cape.
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This book is magic
by Ashley Evanson
Do you know that you're a magician? In this interactive book, use your fingers to perform all kinds of magic tricks. Tap a hat to make a bunny appear, recite a spell to make books bigger, say "Gone-zo!" to make a ship disappear, and much more. But beware: the clever magic tricks don't always turn out the way you'd expect!
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Hat tricks
by Satoshi Kitamura
Hattie the bunny magician invites readers to join along in the fun as she uses her magic hat and wand to conjure up a parade of animals who team up for a whimsical grand finale.
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The disappearing Mr. Jacques
by Gideon Sterer
A clever magician teaches young readers his most top-secret tricks as he disappears and reappears throughout the book's pages.
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Tiny T. Rex and the grand ta-da!
by Jonathan Stutzman
Determined to win their school's talent show, Tiny and Pointy decide to become great magicians but soon discover that performing in front of an audience is even more challenging than perfecting their act.
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Spellbinding Chapter Books!
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Humphrey's mixed-up magic trick
by Betty G Birney
Enlisted by Golden-Miranda to be her magician's assistant during a performance for the class, Humphrey is challenged to use his quick thinking and scampering when one of the tricks proves to be more challenging than anticipated.
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Fake snakes and weird wizards
by Henry Winkler
Disguising himself as a master magician when his sister's performer of choice is unavailable for her birthday party, Hank is exposed during his performance, with catastrophic results.
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Zatanna and the house of secrets: a graphic novel
by Matthew Cody
Zatanna and her professional magician father live in a house full of magic, puzzles, and storybook creatures, but when she stands up to a bully in school, she returns home to find her father's gone missing within their own home.
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The name of this book is secret
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Small vials of smelly ingredients, the diaries of a dead magician, and a secret story about immortality have two less-than-sociable kids on the hunt to solve a strange mystery, in a challenging middle reader filled with word-games, anagrams, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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The Magic Misfits
by Neil Patrick Harris
This title follows the experiences of a young New England street magician who teams up with other talented street kids to protect their community from a greedy crime boss.
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Rise of the shadow
by Brian Anderson
Transported into a magical world where their pet rabbit can talk, Alex and Emma are enmeshed in the land's fight against a mysterious sorcerer who wants to claim a powerful object to destroy the magical and human worlds.
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Amari and the night brothers
by B. B. Alston
Discovering that she has a supernaturally enhanced talent, Amari Peters enters a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, where she is considered the enemy, in order to find her missing brother.
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