First the Egg
WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg? Simple die-cuts magically present transformation-- from seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly. The acclaimed author of Black? White! Day? Night! and Lemons Are Not Red gives an entirely fresh and memorable presentation to the...
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WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg? Simple die-cuts magically present transformation-- from seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly. The acclaimed author of Black? White! Day? Night! and Lemons Are Not Red gives an entirely fresh and memorable presentation to the concepts of transformation and creatiity. Seed becomes flower, paint becomes picture, word becomes story--and the commonplace becomes extraordinary as children look through and turn the pages of this novel and winning book. First the Egg is a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book and a 2007 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596432727 (1596432721)
ASIN: 1596432721
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Seeger has a clever design idea and she's milking it for all it's worth. I thought Green was more interesting than this book because of how it explored just the one thing. But as a concept book (one of the mainstay categories in early childhood literature), this one focuses on the temporal order nec...
Explores what comes first, like: egg/chicken, seed/flower, word/story. Pretty illustrations.
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