In this book a master of the art of creating realistic, lifelike hand shadows reveals his secrets and goes far beyond the basics of the hand-shadow art to demonstrate, in more than 70 clear illustrations, precisely how to hold your hands in order to make a lumbering dinosaur, a pair of playing monkeys, an eagle that slowly takes flight; a cat that scratches itself, lashes its tail, and jumps towards the audience; a howling wolf, a neighing horse; a young fawn who does mock battle with her own tail, a dog that eats a rabbit, and many more. The author explains how to make the shadows lifelike, how to exercise your fingers to make it easier to produce hand shadows, and how to organize a performance of your shadow art.