Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Patron demand watch: Scanimation

So there's this new technology called "scanimation" that will be making its picture book debut this holiday season. It involves a static image that appears to move when the reader rocks it back and forth, and it will appear in the book Gallop!, by Rufus Butler Seder. I imagine this book will be heavily marketed at book fairs and such, so you may be receiving requests. Whether you will want to buy it is another question, but it doesn't look any worse than other gimmick books.

More on this topic from School Library Journal.