Sue Bovington UK
USE SAFETY MATCHES ONLY
Original book title: 'Learn about…Tricks and Magic'
I chose this book because it seemed small and insignificant amongst the many big, fat, important looking volumes that were on offer for this project.

One early idea was to add some 'magic' pop-up pages to its structure, but I was persuaded against this by friends who had grown up loving
these Ladybird books. They thought it should be cherished, made special, and most importantly that one should still be able read the book
and see how to do the tricks illustrated. They were aghast at the prospect of the pages being cut up and reconfigured.

Just as well I didn't tell them my first thought, which was to play on the recurring phrase, 'USE SAFETY MATCHES ONLY', set fire to it and return
a half burned book, bag of ashes and empty box of matches!

So what you see is option three. The book has been deconstructed and the pages re-configured into a leporello (concertina) fold. It now resides
in a giant matchbox, which also contains most of the items needed to perform the tricks.

susanbovington@hotmail.com