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Gallop! - Rufus Butler Seder
Gallop!
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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... show more
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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Format: board book
ISBN: 9780761147633 (0761147632)
ASIN: 761147632
Publisher: Workman
Pages no: 14
Edition language: English
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cjc
cjc rated it
3.0 Gallop!
Four or five stars for the "scanimation," which is pretty cool; one or two stars for the text, which is pretty lame. Fortunately, my two-year-old doesn't care.
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
4.0
It is interesting how the animal move. I have never seen anything like it before - but what makes it a really good book is that you can get the kids up and moving. They can play along with the book. The text is JUST as important as the moving pictures. The ending is fun too!
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