Rocket Book

This was given to me as a lovely Christmas present from my children and grandchildren. Having watched Scot Green perform it in the promotional video, I was able to entertain my family with it straight out of the box. I am delighted with it. It’s a really nice variation on the magic colouring book and Scot Green’s way of including a single topsy turvy bottle with it is brilliant. It’s also helpful to do that if you have very young children in the audience because they can be unsurprised by rockets appearing the right way up in an upside down book! (That reminds me of when my grandchildren were little and played hide-and-seek but thought they were well hidden by a tree if they just faced the tree trunk! - I have a very cute photo of two of them doing that holding hands.) I am thinking about making a topsy turvy rocket gimmick (or would that be overkill?) If you get the story line and patter right, the topsy turvy bottle inclusion would help to make this excellent book accessible to a wider age range of children. Without it, I’d say that the Rocket Book is ideal for performing to 7-10 year olds. The book is very beautifully produced and printed on extra thick paper in lovely bright colours with a high quality, glossy cover, big enough for parlour or small stage but constructed so well you could do it close up without being burned. Another excellent privation from our friends at Amazekids. Thank you Vanishing Inc. for supporting and promoting magic like this. I do wish that they’d do another run of the Colossal Coloring Book of Magic (which serves a different purpose, opening up the use of crayon and colour magic for kids.)
Since writing this review I can add that I have used this successfully with a topsy turvy bottle in tube I created. By having brightly coloured arrows on the tube showing which way is up, the younger children are helped to understand the magic.

Absolutely amazing for kids! A lot of kids see it and go "I know this one, you're going to color the pictures." So many kids have seen the coloring book trick, and they think this is just that but for space pictures. But they are always surprised when they see what actually happens. It's great for kids, but I've even had parents be amazed by it. A must have for anyone who does magic for kids.

BRILLIANT THANK YOU

I didn't intend to add this to my act, but due to a request from a mother to include a trick about astronauts and/or space in a birthday party show, I ordered this. Because of my experience with the coloring book trick, I didn't expect to use it much, if at all, after that show.

I now perform it in most every show, and am invariably surprised at how strong the reaction is. Every. Single. Time.

I actually retired the classic coloring book from my act eons ago because kids were almost always familiar with it. In fact recently a young audience member (around 10) told me he was an amateur magician and happened to list the coloring book as one of his favorite to perform. A few minutes later he asked how I did the rocket book trick.

If you get this trick, a couple of tips:

1) Since you know the coloring book, you may be inclined to run through it a couple of times before performing, if even that. I urge you to practice. The orientation of the book changes each time, so you need to remember which corners to flip from; also, the last couple of pages can be easy to accidentally skip unless you practice holding the corner of the page just right as you flip it. The high quality of the paper makes a slight difference in the handling.

2) The premise I like to use when performing this is to have the kids call out something that disappears when astronauts go into space. They invariably say gravity (there may be other answers but I call out gravity) and then demonstrate that there is no up or down in space. It's not exactly a super-accurate-science-lesson, but the kids know enough about the topic to understand the journey I'm taking them on. And since I don't have a patent or trademark on gravity, if you're inclined to use that premise, please do.

I love the concept of Rocket Book. Still working on the precise presentation. I think there's a lot here that I have not fully tapped.

Great quality book!

Such a great take on the coloring book effect. While the trick is taught in conjunction with another marketed trick to make a routine, this book alone is a good piece of magic. The quality is superb with bright and clear colors and designs. I really have nothing bad to say about it. It is great for parlor shows and I have even done this in some stage settings.