Who was Harry Houdini?

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Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings.

Illustrated by John O'Brien.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Who Was Harry Houdini? (p. 1)
• So You Want to Be an American (p. 4)
• So You Want to Be a Magician (p. 15)
• So You Want to Be Famous (p. 27)
• So You Want to Be a Star (p. 35)
• So You Want to Be Amazing (p. 48)
• So You Want to Be a Pilot (p. 56)
• So You Want to Be a Movie Star (p. 63)
• So You Want to Be an Illusionist (p. 69)
• So You Want to Be a Hero (p. 77)
• So You Want to Be a Detective (p. 85)
• So You Want to Be Remembered Forever (p. 95)

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Horn Book Review

These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but [cf2]Tallchief[cf1] and [cf2]Houdini[cf1] have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Wasà? titles: [cf2]Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?,[cf1] and [cf2]Who Was Harry Houdini?[cf1].] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.