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Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book

by Rufus Butler Seder

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ISBN13: 9780761147633
ISBN10: 0761147632
Condition: Standard
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A book that will charm and amuse any little one on your list. The horse really gallops; the chimp really swings from a tree — all through the magic of "scanimation."
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click to view larger 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.

Synopsis:

Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page in this book is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies.

About the Author

Rufus Butler Seder is the inventor of Lifetiles, glass-tiled murals that appear to come to life when the viewer walks by; he's installed them at the Smithsonian, Sea World, Union Station, and other museums, aquariums, train stations, and ocean liners around the world. He is also the founder of Eye Think, Inc., a company that develops and produces a line of toys and gifts using the technologies he's invented. Mr. Seder lives in Boston.

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kbaltetsch, March 15, 2010 (view all comments by kbaltetsch)
these books are brilliant, is the animation a hook to buy the book, probobly, does the hook get my kids reading, absolutely.
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kaileybowser1, November 29, 2009 (view all comments by kaileybowser1)
Both my children LOVE this book. My daughter found it in the library and I found this book to buy (also the waddle one as well). I cant wait to see her face light up as she opens it on Christmas day.
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kirichan1921, August 7, 2008 (view all comments by kirichan1921)
This is a really cool book for kids!! It has a bunch of different animals in the book. As you turn the page, it shows the animal move, and the movements look very realistic.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780761147633
Author:
Seder, Rufus Butler
Publisher:
Workman Publishing
Author:
Seder, Rufus
Subject:
Animals - General
Subject:
Art - General
Subject:
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / General
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Toy and movable books
Subject:
Stories in rhyme
Subject:
Children s Nonfiction-Animals
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Hardback
Publication Date:
20071131
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
from 3
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
12
Dimensions:
7.0 x 5.0 in
Children's Book Type:
Picture / Wordless
Age Level:
04-08

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"Staff Pick" by ,

A book that will charm and amuse any little one on your list. The horse really gallops; the chimp really swings from a tree — all through the magic of "scanimation."

"Synopsis" by , Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page in this book is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies.
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