GALLOP! och SWING!

ロンドンに住んでいる親友が一時帰国している。

会いたくて楽しみにしていたのに風邪を引いてしまい、

約束をキャンセルするはめに、、、。

タフになりたいと呟いたのはついこの間なのに。

寝込んでいたところに彼女から郵送でお土産が届いた。

紙袋を開けて大好きなFORTNUM＆MASONのEARL GREY CLASSIC

を目にしただけでも元気百倍。なのだが、リクエストした

しかけ絵本"GALLOP!"を手にした私は思わずにんまり。

この本はScanimationと言う1960年代末から80年代頃に開発された

アナログアニメーションシステムを使用したもの。

こんな風に書くと古くさく感じるかもしれないけれど、

2007年にWORKMANから出版されたこの本は古くさいどころか、

デジタルに慣れた私達に新鮮な驚きを与えてくれる美しい仕掛け絵本です。

スウェーデンに滞在中に彼女が娘に贈ってくれた、

同じくRufus Butler Seder 著の"SWING!"は娘のお気に入りの本の一つ。

今回の"GALLOP!"もきっとそうなるはず。

今度会うまでに私も何か驚くようなギフトを用意しなくちゃ！？

One of my best friend who lives in London has came back to Japan now. We had a plan to meet in downtown a few days ago, but I canceled it because of my cold.

Though I have written that I want to be tough in this new year a few times ago.

When I was in the bed a souvenir arrived by mail from her. I became very fine once I saw the pack of EARL GREY CLASSIC of FORTNUM＆MASON my favorite tea! Besides, I was delighted that I got "GALLOP!" a book which I requested her as a souvenir.

This book consists of some beautiful scanimation pictures. Scanimation is an analog computer animation system developed from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Though it may sounds an old-fashioned book as I write in this way, but the book published by WORKMAN in 2007 is far from old-fashioned, and a beautiful device picture book. I think it can give us very fresh surprise more than ordinal digital pictures.

She sent my daughter "SWING!" that is written by the same author Rufus Butler Seder during my family and I were staying in Sweden. The book is already one of the favorite books of my daughter. Surely this "GALLOP!" should be so as well.

I have to prepare a gift that can give a surprise for her by next hanging out! ?