Dustjacket has its wear and tear but is intact, book has serious tanning and a blacked-out previous owner name but is otherwise solid.

“There's a magic half-hour on television when a goodly audience, composed about equally of adults and children, shuns the cowboy movies, puppet shows and adventures in outer space.

This is the time of "Mr. Wizard" and his young colleagues, Willy Watson and Betsy Taylor.

Theirs is a "captive" audience captivated by the wonders of the everyday world which "Mr. Wizard" explains so clearly and demonstrates so dramatically.

The "wizard" is Don Herbert, and his wizardry consists in showing that science can be fun!

Now, for the first time in print, Don Herbert allows his following to perform along with him the best of his experiments in science.

In Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets, Don Herbert and the Popular Mechanics Press join to bring you a book of home experiments guaranteed to entertain and mystify your friends, and, more important, to give hours of fun-coated education to your boy or girl!

Using the simplest of materials and ingredients, many of them now in your kitchen, you can be your own "Mr. Wizard"... turn wine into water ... pop popcorn with radiant energy ... blow up a balloon inside a bottle cause spectacular (but entirely safe) explosions fashion musical instruments from bottles, pins and soda straws … make your own home

telegraph and telephone systems ... cause water from a faucet to bend mysteriously ... make mothballs dance

... perform hundreds more

fascinating tricks.

Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets is the perfect gift book for children of all ages. The experiments have been approved by educators and scientists; but more important, they have been applauded by youngsters themselves!”