Binding: Board book
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Product Description:
There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.
A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action—or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo!
Every child who opens the book will be amazed—and so will every parent.
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Features:
- Rufus Butler Seder's Gallop! uses patented Scanimation to bring animal pictures to life every time you turn the page.
- You won't believe your eyes as you watch a horse gallop, a rooster strut and many more amazing moving images.
- 20 pages.
Author: Rufus Butler Seder
Brand: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761147632
Number Of Pages: 12
Languages:
Original Language: English
Unknown: English
Published: English
Customer Reviews

Amazing illustrations, but the text is lacking
My toddler is fascinated with the moving illustrations in Gallop, but the accompanying text is pretty sub-par as far as children's books go. I know it's difficult to come up with a rhyme for cock-a-doodle-doo, but...giddyup-a-loo? The rhymes aren't silly in a funny sense; they're just silly in a dumb sense. I wish the author would have tried a little harder when writing the book instead of relying so heavily on the novelty of the scanimation.