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Flotsam by David Wiesner
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Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book)

by David Wiesner

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Clarion Books (2006), Hardcover, 40 pages

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BEAUTIFUL X100 magnification. I went threw each page and then started over again before I realized there were no words. ( )
  petajaye | Dec 16, 2009 |
Wiesner's incredible imagination takes us to the beach, where a boy discovers and examines flotsam washed up on the beach. The boy finds an old, mysterious camera, and after getting the photos developed, examines them under his microscope, only to reveal an incredibly imaginative & wild underwater world. Best of all, he finds a photograph of a child holding a photograph of a child holding a photograph of a.....etc. He examines it closely under the microscope and finally sees a boy, from the Victorian era, waving from his beach. A beautiful book whose illustrations & layout compliment the theme of time passing, and succeed in capturing all the quietness, solitude, reminscence and mystery.
  archerje | Dec 5, 2009 |
the 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea for young children!?. what great illustrations and the author/illustrator has an amazing imagination, Mr. Wiesner creates a wonderful under the sea experience in Flotsam.
  joel07 | Dec 4, 2009 |
A fantastic wordless picture book. Flotsam tells the story of a camara which washes up on the beach. A boy takes the film to be developed an discovers an eerie "picture within a picture within a picture" photo which travels back in time.
  iclairei | Nov 30, 2009 |
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  TammyReynolds | Nov 22, 2009 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0618194576, Hardcover)

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.

In each of his amazing picture books, David Wiesner has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to the Empire State Building, a well-known nursery tale. This time, a day at the beach is the springboard into a wildly imaginative exploration of the mysteries of the deep, and of the qualities that enable us to witness these wonders and delight in them.

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