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| Author | David Wiesner |
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| Illustrator | David Wiesner |
| Country | United States |
| Genre(s) | Children's picture book |
| Publisher | Clarion/Houghton Mifflin |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| ISBN | (ISBN 978-0618194575) |
Flotsam is a children's book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal.[1] Flotsam is David Wiesner's 3rd Caldecott Medal. The book contains illustrations of underwater life with no text to accompany them.
Plot
This book has no words, but it told in pictures. A boy is at the beach and finds an old camera. He takes the film to get it developed, and sees photos of fantastical undersea cities and inventions. The last picture is the most interesting, though: it's of a girl, who is holding a photo of a child, who is holding a photo of a child, who is holding a photo of a child, and so on. The boy figures out that he should take a picture of himself holding this photo. So he takes the picture, and tosses the camera back into the ocean; it is carried across the ocean by a variety of fish and sea life, until it again washes ashore and another child finds it.
References
- ^ American Library Association: American Library Association announces literary award winners. URL accessed 27 January 2007,
External links
| Preceded by The Hello, Goodbye Window |
Caldecott Medal recipient 2007 |
Succeeded by ? |
