Gallop! / Rufus Butler Seder ; illustrations by Rufus Butler Seder ; design by Raquel Jaramillo.

Main entry:

Seder, Rufus Butler, author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Gallop! / Rufus Butler Seder ; illustrations by Rufus Butler Seder ; design by Raquel Jaramillo.

Publication:

New York : Workman Publishing Company, Inc., [2007]

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
"A Scanimation picture book."
On board pages
The author acknowledges some illustrations in this book are based on the motion photography pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge.
Library copy: gift from Glenn Brown's Estate.

Summary:

Rhyming text asks if the reader can move like a variety of animals. Striped acetate overlays on board pages give illustrations the illusion of movement.
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!

ISBN:

9780761147633 (paper over board ; alk. paper)
0761147632 (paper over board ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Animal locomotion Juvenile literature.
Animals Juvenile literature.
Toy and movable books Specimens.
Board books.
Stories in rhyme.
Animal locomotion Fiction.
Animals Fiction.
Toy and movable books.
Locomotion animale Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Livres tout carton.
board books.
Children Physiology Juvenile fiction.
Animal locomotion
Animals

Form/genre:

Board books.
Toy and movable books.
board books.
Juvenile works
Specimens
Picture books for children.
Juvenile literature.
Livres tout carton.

Added entries:

Jaramillo, Raquel.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Brown, Glenn, 1952-2023, former owner.
Workman Publishing Company, publisher.
United States New York (State) New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318777
Call No.: 318777
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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