Gotcha!: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends [Hardcover]

David Acer (Author), Stephen MacEachern (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up

A book full of knowledge and know-how, Gotcha! demystifies some age-old mysteries and shows kids that it's easy to be a master of illusion. Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters take readers behind the scenes of the world's oldest and coolest mysteries. Then they show kids how to re-create those mysteries to fool their friends. This interactive book is also full of interesting and bizarre background information on each mystery.
With step-by-step instructions, easy-to-find materials (and sometimes no materials at all) kids can:
- Hypnotize a friend
- Turn a pencil into gold
- Test their house for ghosts
- Make Bigfoot prints
- Make a fake UFO photo and video
- Make their own lake monster video

Editorial Reviews

Review

This playful collection actually offers 19 cool tricks, from appearing to hypnotize a friend to making a crop circle ... (Kirkus Reviews )

Critical thinking and scientific reasoning underscore the fun activities. Reluctant readers will be hooked. (CM Magazine )

About the Author

David Acer is a Gemini-award-nominated writer, magician and comedian who has done crazy things on dozens of television shows around the world. Younger viewers might recognize him as ?Doubting Dave? from Discovery Kids' Mystery Hunters, a show which garnered him two Gemini nominations (the Canadian equivalent of the Emmys) for Best Writer in a Children's Non-Fiction Series.

Stephen MacEachern attended Sheridan Institute for animation and illustration and has taught in the illustration program there. He is a Web and print designer as well as an illustrator. He has illustrated more than ten children?s books. He lives in Erin, Ontario.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd. (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554531942
• ISBN-13: 978-1554531943
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,874,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FULL SYNOPSIS, August 18, 2008

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This review is from: Gotcha!: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends (Hardcover)

The Truth is in Here!

Does Bigfoot exist? Are crop circles made by aliens? Can dead bodies climb out of their graves and show up at your birthday party? Join Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters as they investigate some of the world's oldest and coolest mysteries, THEN learn how to recreate those mysteries YOURSELF to fool your friends!

Make fake Bigfoot prints in your own backyard!

Take phony UFO photos in your car!

Use an amazing illusion to turn yourself into a headless zombie!

Show your friends a crazy card trick that will convince them you can travel through time!

Pull a "King Midas" and turn a pencil into gold!

Freeze your BFF in his tracks with a trick that looks like hypnosis!

PLUS you'll learn how to test your ESP, snap a fake ghost photo, bend a spoon with your brain and 9 other cool feats. AND teenage Mystery Hunters Araya and Christina answer all your questions about ghosts, aliens, psychics, hypnotists, sea monsters, Bigfoot and more! Find out the truth while you freak out your friends, then you can say GOTCHA!