Chris Philpott's Book of Monkeys - Only Available Here

The Book of Monkeys
By Chris Philpott

"All I can say is, 'fantastic!' I am
up to the one-ahead envelope ploy,
and think it very, very, very, very, did
I say very ingeneous. Lovely. Your
work stands on itself and when
that happens, rare..." -Banachek

From the creator of The 100th Monkey
comes an exclusive new book
exploring this new principle.

“To the jaded of us who say
‘it’s all been done’ or ‘there
are no new effects or methods,’
tell that to Chris Philpott.”

- Francis Menotti, Magic Magazine, on
The 100th Monkey.

The Book of Monkeys is an exclusive, leather-bound release limited to 99 copies (signed-and-numbered) intended for professionals and collectors. It contains nearly 70 effects, most by Chris Philpott, but also including work by Max Maven, Steve Valentine, Ran Pink, Pete McCabe and others. Effects include new and revolutionary approaches to such mentalist classics as Drawing Duplication, The Chair Test, ACAAN, Headline Predictions, Q and A and The Open Prediction as well as powerful new plots such as giving a volunteer the ability to read a foreign language! There are effects designed for close up and stage, exciting new plots where the magic happens on borrowed cell phones and even effects designed specific ally for motivational and keynote speakers!

“I love this! A brand new principle! Chris’ routines are brilliant!”– David Penn, Wizard Product Review of The 100th Monkey.

Please note: most of the gimmicked artworks necessary to perform these effects have not been created yet, but along with this book, purchasers will receive access to an on-line drop box so they will have access to all the artworks as they are created. This is a time-consuming process and will likely take several years but if there are requests to produce any particular cards sooner rather than later, I am totally open to that.

The price of the book (which includes access to the online drop box for subsequent Monkey releases) is $550.

My intention is to eventually release most or all of these effects to the magic community at large at a more affordable price once the artworks have been created and the DVD instructions have been filmed and edited. At the moment, I’m planning between 7 and 12 releases in this series so it’s likely that in spite of the high cost of this book, it will prove more economical than buying the DVDs separately as they are released.

Why not just release all these effects with artwork and DVDs?

Shortly after the release of The 100th Monkey, Richard Osterlind warned me that now that the principle was out there and was doing well, other people would start releasing products using it and some of these would no doubt be ideas I had already come up with. He said the only way to protect my ideas was to release everything all at once and fast, even if that meant I didn’t have all the artworks ready (which is very time-consuming – the first release had 175 JPEGs and the Multi-Language version had over 500!) It also meant I couldn’t develop, script and polish every effect to the degree I would like (though many are fully scripted). Clearly this book was something that would never fly for the magic community at large – this had to be a limited edition meant for professionals and collectors. When I told Murphy’s Magic (which distributes most of my work) about the book, they suggested it be a very high-quality signed and numbered leather-bound book suitable for collectors.

“To say that I'm impressed is an understatement! This is something I will carry with me personally everywhere I go. Words simply do not do this justice.” -Michael Murray on The 100th Monkey

Fine print: There will be no authorized public version of The Book of Monkeys other than this signed-and-numbered, limited edition until at least the year 2025. While purchase of my effects generally includes TV rights, in this case it does not. There are a variety of reasons why this is so – not all the effects have cards yet and I don’t want people making up substandard cards that could expose the effects; and I do not control the TV rights to all these effects. If there’s something you’d like to perform on TV, give me a shout and we can likely make it happen. And of course, anything on the 100th Monkey DVD (and likely, all subsequent DVDs) will be free and available for TV performance.

"The 100th Monkey is not just a method; it's an adventure! You're going to want to run with these simian secrets."
- Max Maven