Harry houdini by tom lalicki

Tom Lalicki. Holiday House, $19.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-8234-1499-4

This highly readable biography about Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the famous magician and escape artist, casts a spell of its own.

Through the well-researched and fast-paced narrative, Lalicki (Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey) sifts through the many contradictions of Houdini's life to unveil the circumstances leading up to Houdini's stratospheric success.

Born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, the future magician immigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1878.

An illustrated biography of Ehrich Weiss, who at an early age changed his name to Harry Houdini, provides middle readers with a look at the dramatic life of.

This is a biographical sketch of the life—mostly the professional life--of Harry Houdini.

From Publishers Weekly.

Tom Lalicki tells Houdini's story with a fascinating mix of text and images, revealing the facts and juxtaposing them with startling images.

Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini An engaging biography about the famous magicians and escape artist Harry Houdini's personal life and public exploits.

By age 18, he had channeled his drive and a love of performing into magic, choosing the stage name Harry Houdini in homage to master magician Robert-Houdin. Lalicki effectively underscores the tandem guiding influences of Houdini's mother and his wife, Bess Rahner, who also acted as his assistant, in describing a career that spanned from 1892-1926.

The author also puts Houdini's success into perspec