Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Books for the Magic Shop: It Begins with Spooky Tricks

As I really get started on this little magic shop, one thing that I know I'm going to be making a LOT of is books. Many, many books. But I knew that there was one in particular that I needed to make right from the start. It was always going to be the case that the very first book on the Mini Mountain Magic shelves would be "Spooky Tricks".


A wooden shelf in Mini Mountain Magic displaying a 1:12 scale miniature copy of Spooky Tricks book standing upright next to a tiny white magician's hand, with a rubber duck and rubber chicken on the shelf above — all miniature scale props for the tiny magic shop.


Back when I was in elementary school, there was nothing better than "free book day". Getting to wander into a classroom that was just COVERED in books and getting to pick one out just for you, for FREE? Seriously the best. And that's how "Spooky Tricks" came to be my first ever magic book. I loved this book. I still do. There are some really good tricks in here! (Even though I never could get my little brother into the box for one of them. Alas.)


The full size vintage copy of Spooky Tricks, an I Can Read Book by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames with pictures by Talivaldis Stubis, displayed on a dark surface surrounded by silver coins and a pendulum necklace, with a tiny 1:12 scale miniature version of the same book visible in the lower right corner.

Anyway, all that to say there will be MANY books filling Mini Mountain Magic, and they won't all be real books like this one (I would love it if they were, but I just do not have time before the show).


A 1:12 scale miniature copy of Spooky Tricks open on the counter of Mini Mountain Magic, showing tiny readable interior pages with illustrations, with the shop shelves visible in the background including a white magician's hand and rabbit cage.


But this one had to be real. It had to be first. It was never going to be any other way.

Wishing you a magical Tuesday full of wonderful books in whatever scale you prefer.

- Wendy 

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