First the EggWritten by: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Brief Summary: This book is about transformations...from egg to chicken, seed to flower, and caterpillar to butterfly. But it's also a book about creativity -- as paint becomes picture, word becomes story... and commonplace becomes extraordinary.
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I checked this book out of the curriculum lab after our Tuesday, 2/2/10 class presentation. The book is quite colorful and displays large, page-filling illustrations. Personally, I think that the best part of this book is the fact that it is non-fiction. Normally when I think of non-fiction, I think of hard, cold, solid facts that are boring to read and hear. I don't think of big, colorful illustrations, and I don't think of it being fun to read. However, Seeger does a great job of making learning facts fun! If the information itself doesn't keep the kids attention than the cut-outs within the book will. Every time I turned the page I wondered what surprise I would find on the other side. This is a very attractive quality of the book and I feel that readers of all abilities will find this book appealing.
