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Gallop!

A Scanimation Picture Book

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By Rufus Butler Seder

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Price

$16.95

Price

$18.95 CAD

Format

Hardcover

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Hardcover $16.95 $18.95 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around November 22, 2007. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

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.

Series:

  • "At first glance, this looks like a regular old picture book—but the second you open it up, you'll be mesmerized. Thanks to a brand-new technique called "scanimation," the images on each page seem to move, as though you were watching a film instead of simply reading. Horses gallop, eagles soar—and young readers' jaws drop! It's the coolest book we've seen in a while."
    —www.parenting.com, "Daily Favs"

On Sale
Nov 22, 2007
Page Count
12 pages
ISBN-13
9780761147633

Rufus Butler Seder

About the Author

Rufus Butler Seder is the author of Gallop! and other Scanimation titles with over 6.3 million copies in print. An author, artist, filmmaker, and inventor, his first significant invention was Lifetiles, glass-walled murals that appear to come to life when the viewer walks by. He’s installed them at the Smithsonian, SeaWorld, Union Station, and other museums, aquariums, train stations, and ocean liners around the world.

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