Gallop!

Gallop is a different kind of book because it's a scanimation book. As kids flip each page they'll see animals move...a horse gallops, a turtle swims, and a butterfly flutters.

The animation process works with a striped acetate overlay and gives the illusion of motion. We don't need to know the details, but anything that gets a child to flip the page and read is OK by us. It's available here.

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I love this book. In addition to being super cool, it's a hardy little nugget. My youngest is ROUGH on books and this one is still kickin' and fluttering and galloping!

posted by paperdollsforboys on May 12th 2008 at 8:19am
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I agree that it's a tough little book. It has the appeal of a pop up book, but nothing get ripped out. My 2 yr old LOVES it!

posted by javagrrrl on May 12th 2008 at 8:41am
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I bought this at the Museum of Moving Images, a fun place to go.

posted by Kate (NC) on May 12th 2008 at 3:36pm
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We found this book at Costco around Easter time and love it. Its my GO TO gift for kids right now.

posted by pjrmayo on May 12th 2008 at 5:25pm
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I saw this at Barnes & Noble the other day. Very cool.

posted by dcmom on May 13th 2008 at 3:37am
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I saw this at Costco and should have bought it! Now I'm kicking myself.

posted by schnappycat on May 13th 2008 at 9:02am
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I picked up a copy of this at Borders just this past weekend.... I was like, "Honey what's this...." and started flipping the pages where in I IMMEDIATELY freaked out over how cool it was.

... I think he may have bought it for me just out of embarrassment hahaha... I like to think it's because he loves me!

posted by sarahrae on May 13th 2008 at 9:36am
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My three year old niece and I have paged through this book again and again...and again. The fun part is that every time we look at it, she laughs so hard that I get laughing at her, then she laughs at me, and before we know it we're a big 'ol pile on the floor. Just when we settle down, she turns the page and we're at it again. That's some of the best stuff in life!

posted by behren on May 14th 2008 at 8:22am
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