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Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books) Review

Saw this book mentioned in the Costco magazine and thought I had to get it for the novelty in the book arts that it represents. It is very cool and surprising to see motion created just by opening to the page. My current gf is a visual artist and says this technology is a "lenticular". Whatever it is called, it's clearly cool and will be loved by small children and appreciated by everyone else.

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books) Feature

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.

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books) Overview

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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Customer Reviews

Fun book for kids - M&N's Mommy - Long Island, NY
Bought this book for my daughter after she saw it on the back of a similar book at the library, but this one had gone missing. She loves it, it's very fun and interactive and she was able to figure out how to get the animals to move right away. Perfect for my little horse lover!

Cool book. - Nicole Reininger - Houston, TX
When you turn the pages the pictures move. Its a really neat tool to help little kids learn to read. Its somewhat interactive without having to stick them in from of a TV. I saw it in a store and knew I could get it cheaper online, and I did!

Amazing illustrations, but the text is lacking - A. Kelley - Woodinville, WA, USA
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.

Novelty wears off quickly - Jelena V.P. - Maryland, US
Both my husband and I liked the idea, but the novelty wears off pretty quickly and now the book is just gathering dust on the shelf. Our now 11 months old couldn't care less for it. He looks at the picture, then at me with "so what?" look on his face and I kind of see his point. The text is rather dumb, e.g. "Can you run like a dog? roly-poly-pup!". Fortunately, my son can't read yet, so I make up my own story. Maybe the bigger kids would be more interested, although also probably just for a minute. I'd recommend to get a lava lamp instead.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010