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Watch Me Go!

by Rebecca Young
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Overview

Lenticular or animation? Surprise, it's both in one!!

Watch me go!

With incredibly crisp photographs, these 60-frame lenticulars bring images to life. Watch a bird flap its wings, a butterfly land on a flower, or an airplane take off from a runway. These illustrations literally leap off the page!

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Watch me go!

With incredibly crisp photographs, these 60-frame lenticulars bring images to life. Watch a bird flap its wings, a butterfly land on a flower, or an airplane take off from a runway. These illustrations literally leap off the page!

Publishers Weekly

Using the same lenticular technology as the duo's Watch Me Hop!, this compact book creates the illusion of moving vehicles, including a race car, spaceship and fire engine. The movements, undeniably smooth and detailed, are “activated” when readers tilt the book vertically. Some are exceptional (an approaching train slowly floods a dark tunnel with light), as the eight machines identify themselves in bold, block print: “I'm a digger./ My treads go around./ Watch me go move the ground!” It's a simple, modest optical effect, but paired with the book's crisp silhouette backgrounds, it should hold readers' attention. Ages 3–up. (Sept.)\

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Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

The cut-out on the cover is a hologram that shows a dump truck that actually drops its load when the book is moved. Each spread features something that goesβ€”like an airplane soaring across a blue sky, or a race car moving around a track, or a train emerging from a dark tunnel. The shuttle is launched into space after a countdown, while something more down to earth shows a digger at work excavating a large trench. There is a speedboat leaving behind a huge spray as it races across the water, and on the closing spread a hook and ladder fire truck raises its ladder to rescue someone in a burning building. The back cover states "Watch the vehicles in motion with this incredible lenticular technology!" which may be a bit of an overstatement. They do not zoom off the pages, but there is motion to entertain young readers. Reviewer: Marilyn Courtot

Publishers Weekly

Using the same lenticular technology as the duo's Watch Me Hop!, this compact book creates the illusion of moving vehicles, including a race car, spaceship and fire engine. The movements, undeniably smooth and detailed, are β€œactivated” when readers tilt the book vertically. Some are exceptional (an approaching train slowly floods a dark tunnel with light), as the eight machines identify themselves in bold, block print: β€œI'm a digger./ My treads go around./ Watch me go move the ground!” It's a simple, modest optical effect, but paired with the book's crisp silhouette backgrounds, it should hold readers' attention. Ages 3–up. (Sept.)\

Book Details

Published
September 1, 2009
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc.
Pages
16
Format
Board Book
ISBN
9780545146999

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