Welcome to the world of robots! With your crayons and ideas, design, color, and create your own robots that can move thanks to the magic of illusion. The transparent frame with the magical vertical stripes, which is included in the book, will unlock your imagination and bring your creations to life!

The technique of shadow cinema gets its name from a visual game that was popular in the early 20th century: a small Chinese shadow theater consisting of a roll of paper that unfolded behind a transparent frame with black vertical stripes.

This clever mechanism allowed the characters of the story to come to life, alternately presenting the two stages of a movement to the audience.

As in cinema or cartoons, the illusion of movement is caused by the property of the retina to retain in the "memory" of the eye for a fraction of a second an image that has just disappeared. The same principle is used in books with static sequential images. If you flip through them quickly, you are left with the impression that their images are moving.

Creating a robot is ultimately a simple matter! It’s your turn to assemble, activate, and deactivate your robot and see its gears move across the paper thanks to this fun activity book!