First the Egg

Blurb

First the Egg is a New York Times bestselling children's picture book written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, published by Roaring Book Press in 2007. It was a Caldecott Honor Book in 2008 and also appeared on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books list and the American Library Association Notable Children's Books list.
The book comprises a series of die-cut pages which convey various forms of transformation. Seeger also uses word play and alters the composition of the illustrations between cut-outs to create unexpected relationships between basic concepts such as time, opposites, and colors.