Description
| Product ID: | 9780761147633 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Gallop! |
| Authors: | Author: Rufus Butler Seder |
| Page Count: | 12 |
| Subjects: | Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Interactive & activity books & packs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Can you gallop like a horse? Can you strut like a rooster? Can you run like a dog? Can you spring like a cat? Can you soar like an eagle? Can you swing like a chimp? Can you flutter like a butterfly? Can you swim like a turtle? Then take a bow and smile: you twinkle, like a star! Then take a bow and shine: a star is what you are. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Workman Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Workman Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-10-08 |
