Reading Adventures and Trick Time lesson by Maryland Magician Dave Thomen
What are the Magical Reading Sentences? Scroll down to find the answer.
What makes these three sentences magical?
- Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.
- Rats live on no evil star.
- A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
They are palindromes that read the same backwards. Try reading each sentence in reverse and remember the third sentence refers to the construction of the Panama Canal. Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting president to observe the construction of the Panama Canal.
Name the most famous magician?

During the COVID pandemic, magician Dave Thomen opened his laptop and started teaching magic. This Trick Time video is one of many, albeit not a high-definition view, the content being taught is high impact magic. So much so that McDaniel College and other clients hired D’s Magic for online instruction during those two years. The Table of Contents for this half-hour video indicates the start of new trick instruction at these minute marks:
2:10 The Famous Nine Card trick
9:40 What is the Key Card secret?
13:30 Mind-Reading tricks with Dice
17:25 Trick Time with a Clock
19:45 I’ll take the Credit Card
25:00 Folding Paper Challenge
27:00 Extra Extraordinary Magic!

Magical Reading Adventures
As educators and parents, many of us appreciate the value of encouraging children to develop a life-long enjoyment for reading. Besides increasing our academic knowledge about the world around us, reading for pleasure allows students to consider possibilities about their own lives.
To encourage daily reading, magician Dave Thomen presents MAGICAL READING ADVENTURES. During the program, he performs magic with audience participation to highlight the different genres of books students can read and how reading sparked his own creativity.
This program is ideal to promote your book fair or reading incentive programs. Dave will adapt his repertoire of banter and illusions for elementary or middle school age students.
In addition to this reading show, Dave has theme programs in character education, science and math.