First the egg

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Caldecott Honor 2008	0-week checkout	Library Use Only
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E SEE	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Seeger, Laura Vaccaro	4-week checkout	Due 04-16-2024
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Seeger, Laura Vaccaro	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024

"A Neal Porter book."
A picture book about transformations.

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Clever Concept Book submitted by skcramer on July 15, 2013, 9:15pm Clever die-cut illustrations elevate this concept book about transformations and sequences into a work of art. As the book opens, an egg-shaped cutout over white paper creates an illustration of an egg, but turning the page transforms that egg-shaped cutout into the body of a yellow chick and the white background is revealed to be part of a white-feathered chicken. Simple text, “First the EGG / then the CHICKEN,” accompanies these pages, and the sparse wording only works to highlight the ingenious, vibrant, oil-on-canvas illustrations. Subsequent pages portray a tadpole then frog, seed then flower, caterpillar then butterfly before moving toward more abstract sequences, word then story, paint and picture. It ends full-circle by returning to the egg, hinting that the story and picture mentioned in the book were, in fact, part of the very book the child is holding. There are some discrepancy between the book’s simple text and its complex illustrations and concepts, so while it may seem like a book for very young children, it is probably better suited for a slightly older audience.

Kids love it submitted by VanCancue on June 24, 2018, 12:42pm The children love die-cut books. This story includes transformation of an hen and frog and seed transform in to their adult forms.