商品の説明

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.

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #32 / 本
• 発売日: 2007-11
• オリジナル言語: 英語
• 寸法: .85 ポンド
• 版型: ボードブック
• 12 ページ

内容説明
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!

About the Author
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.

カスタマーレビュー

これは面白い！すごい！
　本当によくできた絵本です。
ページをめくるたびに様々な動物が躍動感あふれる動きをします。
馬がギャロップし、犬が走り、蝶がはためく。
子供だけでなく大人も驚きと感動のいい絵本です。
プレゼントにぴったり！です。

絵が動いて見える。
いやあ、これは面白い。まず表紙には窓が開いており、そこにモノクロの馬の絵が見えます。
なぜか全体に縦のスジが入っていて、カラフルなGALLOP!という文字と比べて暗く地味な印象。
何だこの本は？と開いた途端に、なんと！その馬の絵がパカパカと走り出したではありませんか。
う〜む、良くできています。馬、雄鶏、犬、猫、鷲、猿、蝶、亀と次々にリアルに動く動物たち。
最後には昔のテレビに出てきそうな星が登場して終了。

左のページにcan you gallop like a horse? と簡単な英語が書かれているけれど、これは本を読むというより
全体のデザインを引き締めるアクセントのようなもの。色もページごとに違います。
一見地味ながら味わい深い本です。おしゃれなパラパラマンガといったところでしょうか。
何度も開けたり閉めたりして楽しめますよ。

Wow
Wow! I found this while browsing at my local bookstore--this book is AMAZING! I picked one up for my mother-in-law, who is a teacher and I am scanning my Christmas list to see who else I can buy one for. This book will really impress kids as well as adults!

Each page features an image that truly looks as though it is being electronically produced, but of course in reality the motion is a result of "Scanimation." No batteries, no wires, nothing to plug in. This is such a great book in this age of digital everything--good old fashioned fun! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet!