Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book

There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals 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, a turtle swimming, a dog running, and an eagle soaring. Created by Rufus Butler Seder—an inventor, artist, and filmmaker—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.

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. A true masterpiece of optical wonder!