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PreS-Gr 2 With brief text and vibrant artwork, Seeger describes familiar transformations in nature. The opening spread reads, "First the EGG." Textured backdrops painted in mustard yellow and rusty orange fill the eye and focus attention on a white egg that peeks through an oval-shaped die-cut from the next page. The following spread completes the thought, "then the CHICKEN," revealing a just-hatched chick and a fluffy white hen. Other simil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seeger, creator of outside-the-box concept books such as Lemons Are Not Red (rev. 1/05), here presents a companion volume about the order of things. The text is minimal: "First the EGG / then the CHICKEN / First the TADPOLE / then the FROG" and so on with seed and flower, caterpillar and butterfly. Seeger then proceeds to more abstract pairs—"First the WORD / then the STORY / First the PAINT / t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seeger's book about the order of things features minimal text ("First the EGG / then the CHICKEN...") and proceeds to abstract p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More