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Our Featured book for this
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Gallop! : A Scanimation Picture
Book
by Rufus Butler Seder
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.
Biography
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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