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 harks back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing. 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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"Readers will gasp with delight when they open this book, produced as paper-over-board: a hidden tab in each heavy page slides an acetate layer printed with vertical black lines over an encoded, detailed image of a horse, rooster, turtle or other creature, and the layers' interaction creates the illusion of motion. The black-and-white images openly reference the motion photography of Eadweard Muybridge (an influence that Seder acknowledges on the copyright page) and they contrast with the bright palette used for the spare, reader-directed text. ("Can you soar like an eagle?/ Whoosh-whoosh-glide!/ Can you swing like a chimp?/ Swoop-swoop-slide!") This book may encourage plenty of galloping--and jumping, running and bounding--on the part of young readers; adults will find it a marvel to look at in its own right."
--"Publishers Weekly," starred review
--"Publishers Weekly," starred review
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wizard Book - the closest thing you will get to the books of Harry Potter's world!
6 Dec 2007
By Hal
Format:Board book
Every odd page in this book has a picture which comes to life as you open the page. It's truly astounding. The title comes from the horse which gallops on the cover, but my favourite is the monkeys swinging through the trees. It's the closest you will come to the books featured in the Harry Potter stories where the pictures come to life - whilst the pictures are of necessity only black and white it is truly a magical feature. I think it makes the book suitable for all ages. I bought it for my 2 year old, but I am as intrigued and impressed by it as he is. I think its a great buy for any age. Children will view it with awe and adults will simply be incredibly impressed. Buy it now!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Board book
This is a pretty short book and would probably be an accompaniment to a bed time story rather than the main story itself.
It consists of a series of bar code like images, and when you turn a page a tab inside is pulled to make an animated image. The first few times you look at this book you won't be able to stop yourself from turning the pages quickly and slowly to perfect the speed of the animation!
It is a novelty - and thankfully a pretty tough one! Unlike books which contain pull down tabs which can easily bend and tear, the pages are thick and the tab to action the action (as it were) is internal to the 2-ply tick card pages so it can't be broken.
Like the other reviewer, I also like the monkey swinging through the trees!
It consists of a series of bar code like images, and when you turn a page a tab inside is pulled to make an animated image. The first few times you look at this book you won't be able to stop yourself from turning the pages quickly and slowly to perfect the speed of the animation!
It is a novelty - and thankfully a pretty tough one! Unlike books which contain pull down tabs which can easily bend and tear, the pages are thick and the tab to action the action (as it were) is internal to the 2-ply tick card pages so it can't be broken.
Like the other reviewer, I also like the monkey swinging through the trees!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Duchess
Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase
My dad bought this book for my 1 year old son. It's the best book he's got! The animals come alive in this book which he absolutely loves! I have bought a couple of these books for my friends' children and my son's little friends. The quality of this book is phenomenal. A definite winner as a present for any young child!
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love these books
more for mummy than child! just love them we were given Waddle! and my daughter loves watching the animals move, very clever books.
Published 27 days ago by Sarah Shaw
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Birthday present
Bought this for my grandson as he loves anything animated and this is truly amazing! Fascinated all the adults as well.
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gallop
this book is amazing. you read it and look at it and wonder how they do it. all children will love it.
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This magical book bring pictures to life. The only reason it loses a star is that the images are not big/clear enough for our 6 month old to enjoy, but I am sure he will love it... Read more
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Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book
Bought this for my 1 year old grandson for Xmas and he loved it with it's lovely pictures and actions.
Published 3 months ago by Lollipop
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A FASCINATING BOOK
My toddler grandchild was kept occupied by this on a long journey. She liked making them go backwards the best.
Published 3 months ago by A N Other
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Nice book.
Bought this for my Goddaughter in the U.S. for her birthday. I was told she loved it and that she couldn't put it down with all those realistic moving images. Read more
Published 4 months ago by James Olmos
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Gallop - a magical book
I saw this book in a doctor's office and ordered it immediately and gave it to my niece's daughter who loved it. This book is a magical experience for children and adults alike. Read more
Published 6 months ago by YVE ROBINSON
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Fantastic
I bought this for my daughter when she was 6 months old. She still "reads" it now that she's three. The animals leap and bound and jump and as the child grows, so does her... Read more
Published 6 months ago by AMT
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Amazing book!
I ordered this book because of all the great reviews and I was certainly not disappointed. I got it for one of my Grandsons, one is a year old the other nearly 3yrs old. Read more
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