Part of the avalanche of Peanuts books landing on my doorstep this week is Peanuts: A Scanimation Book. This is one of those books where when you turn the page, a picture animates, like the Peanuts Moving Book I reviewed a few months back. The ten scenes in this book are mostly (completely?) taken from the animated Peanuts specials, so there are some very recognizable moments included. (Forgive the food in the background of the video; my iPad camera was taking a wider image than it showed.)

What this also means are that the images are full-color… which sounds like a good thing, but when combined with the black-striped overlay that makes the animation work, it makes for a very dark image. All in all, I liked the look of the Japanese book better… but I sure liked buying this US book better; it’s not-imported price was a lot easier on the wallet. (Well, the book is actually imported; most books are printed overseas, and an assembled, mechanical book like this one definitely would be.) Get one for yourself here.

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