The cover design is colorful, and quite appealing…yet open the book and you get wordy, single-spaced, old-styled font with black and white “textbook” graphics that make you want to close the book before you go any farther.  If you can overlook the unappealing interior (and maybe older students can) you will find impressive magical looking experiments with underlying solid physics and chemistry.  The unattractive black and white diagrams and illustrations do a great job of clarifying and supporting the text.  Included in the contents is air magic, visual magic, chemistry magic, light and “sticky” water magic, and motion magic.  Also included in the Back Matter is Further Reading and an Index.