Santa!: A Scanimation Picture Book

by Rufus Butler Seder

Santa Claus is going to town! Marrying the magic of Scanimation with the universally beloved figure of Santa Claus, Santa! is a holiday book unlike any other.It presents a Santa that readers have never seen before—acrobatic, playful, a little mischievous, filled with joyful energy. Here's Santa hula-hooping. Santa juggling. Santa doing cartwheels and Santa on a unicycle. Children, as they did with Gallop!, will want to imitate Santa's irresistibly happy motions. The grown-ups will be unable to stop smiling—it's hard to imagine a cooler character than this jolly St. Nick as he runs, spins, gyrates, backflips, and blows big bubbles.Book HardcoverPublication 9/24/2013 12Reading Age 4 and Up

Genres: Christmas, Childrens, Picture Books

24 pages, Hardcover

First published September 24, 2013

Reviews

[Kellee Moye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reread with G'ma (Meemaw) 12-24-14

[Ame · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing quite gets the kids in the mood for Christmas like watching Santa hula-hooping and doing backflips!

[Luciana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book!

It has a zippy little story about what Santa likes to do & then, on the scanimation page, Santa is doing the movements. Underneath, there are catchy little phrases that are pretty animated with word fun.

I think children would be pretty drawn to this!

[Chloe A-L · Rating 3 out of 5]

A boring story, but I'm a sucker for scanimation

[Angelica]

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[Diana Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish they made books like this when I was a child.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fun! I’d like to see more of these.

[Shauna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Santa dances, runs, and twirls throughout this darling book!

As you move the pages back and forth the pictures move.

HOW?
By using scanimation...

"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."

You will see Santa hula-hoop, ride a unicycle, juggle candy canes and more.

Red and green checkered boarders makes this a very fun book for the holidays.

Once you pick this book up you will be AMAZED!
It is SO ADDICTING to make the pictures move!

[Kathryn (Dragon Bite Books) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Originally published on my blog, Nine Pages.

This scanimation book, while it is still novel to watch the illustrations move as you turn the pages, lacked the message of Gallop, Seder’s first scanimation book. As such, I was underwhelmed. Also it’s very much a book that is stuck within a particular season of the year.

[Stephenie Oxley · Rating 2 out of 5]

My children thought this book was great, they had not seen any like it before. I like the scanimation but think they are a little hard to see and there is not much of a story. Its more of a novelty item. Just OK.

[Lacy | literary_lacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a cute, funny scanimation book. It was a little silly, and made my daughter ask lots of questions, but she really enjoyed it. We had to run through the book again after initially reading it.

This is a fun book, that is good for entertaining younger kids.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scanimation books are fun to look at. But this one is kind of ridiculous with Santa doing everything from backflips to hula-hooping!

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

cute idea but the scanimation is very difficult to see...

[Bryce · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 but I'll round up.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

My kids enjoy seeing Santa hooks-hoop, cartwheel, etc. I agree with other reviewers that the scanimation is hard to see. Still, a fun children's Christmas book.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love books like this!!!