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Wiesner's wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor,". But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal; [1] the third win for David Wiesner. This is a three-week Writing Root for Flotsam by David Wiesner in which children dicsover a range of ‘Flotsam’ items (either after a visit to the seaside, or that have appeared in the classroom). Children go on to read and reflect on the book, making predictions and retelling orally and in writing.

Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro has said of Flotsam, "Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages. At heart it is a humorous fantasy story that also looks closely at the cyclical nature of life, as well as the ultimate power of nature.This book had such an impact on my 6 year old - when we first ‘read’ it together he actually cried at the ending. According to the Kirkus Reviews, “From arguably the most inventive and cerebral visual storyteller in children's literature comes a wordless invitation . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book is about a boy who finds a camera on the beach I like this book because it is interesting. David Wiesner is one of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed picture book creators in the world.

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Shifting perspectives, from close-ups to landscape views, and a layout incorporating broad spreads and boxed sequences, add drama and motion to the storytelling and echo the photographic theme. I think the story having no words encourages a deeper level of engagement, and both the story and the drawings are wonderfully inventive. This wordless book's vivid watercolour paintings have a crisp realism that anchors the elements of fantasy.Wiesner offers another exceptional, wordless picture book that finds wild magic in quiet, everyday settings. Three of the picture books he both wrote and illustrated became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award's long history to have won three times. A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Flotsam is a great example of a wordless picture book that creates engagement through its detailed sequence of images, rather than its text and, as such, requires a high level of inference.