First the Egg

It's a little more interesting than many books, but not by much. It's got a bunch of holes cut in the pages, so it's got this interesting style/gimmick of one painting turning into another. It's reasonably accurate about nature, with eggs turning into chickens, tadpoles turning into frogs, seeds turning into flowers, caterpillars turning into butterflies, et cetera, and then it goes off about words turning into stories and paint becoming paintings, and then there's a chicken that becomes an egg. That's it. That's the whole book.

There's no story line, really, it's just playing with artistic holes in paper and what appears to be oil paints. It doesn't seem intended to be educational, just a series of paintings that are all interconnected. It's one of those books that would be better as an art installation than a book. It's not bad, but I don't think it would hold the child's attention past the first one or two readings where they would think, "Oh, there's holes in the paper!" and then, "Oh, there's holes in the paper. That's how this book works."