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Caldecott Medal 2007
Review:
This book has amazing visuals. The story is told in a manner with no text, but done so so well. The use of color in the photos is great and there is a mystical sense to it as well. I'd highly suggest having this in your classroom.
Blurb:
This book would be great in 1st-6th. It is similar to a graphic novel in a sense. It is great for imagination and story telling without words.
Quote:
The photo of all the kids+camera.

Quote: (the picture)

Blurb:
This is a great book to use to help children get their creative, literacy, and storytelling juices flowing. There are no words in the book, so children can look at the pictures and make up a story on what they think is happening.

Review: Won a Caldecott medal in 2007. A boy finds a camera in the ocean. When he gets the film back he sees pictures of underwater creatures living their lives. There were octopuses reading books, aliens riding fish, and so on. The boy finds pictures of children holding up a photo of another child who is holding a photo of someone else. He takes a picture of himself and then throws the camera back into the ocean for another child to find one day.

This page stood out to me because the boy is continuing the tradition of passing the camera around the world.

This book could be used in a classroom with new or struggling readers. The book has no words but tells the story through the illustrations. It is easy to follow and understand the story.

Flotsam by David Wiesner is a picture book that follows the story of a young boy finding a camera on the beach. He takes the camera to a store to get the film developed and he finds pictures of sea creatures, along with photos of different children that the camera has been passed around by. In the end, he takes a picture of himself and sends the camera back into the ocean for someone else to find. Published: 2006 and Caldecott Winner: 2007

Flotsam tells its story and conveys its theme of curiosity through just its use of eye catching illustrations. The book takes place on a beach with a curious child finding an odd “underwater camera”, prompting him to discover a new world that takes place under the sea.
This book is a great tool for teaching students how to convey stories and themes through just the use of pictures. Students can try their own wordless story after reading.

I don't know that a picture book has ever given me chills before. Gorgeous, wordless magical realism that speaks to the connections between us and the sea.

This caldecott I would describe as nice and neat. The picture seem to be put together so well and everthying feels so symetrical throught the book. This book is very easy on the eyes and a way to bring up topics about the water.

There are several pages in this book that show what is really happening in the sea. These images are so interesting to look at as they could be true, or they couldn‘t. Children would be very interested in looking at this book.

This book is very thought provoking and has very beautiful illustrations. A book like this could be understood by anyone at any age. This couldn‘t be a read aloud book since there are no words.

Award: Caldecott
Review: This book is about a little boy who loves science, as he goes to the beach and tries to find Flotsam, which is anything that floats ashore. To the boys surprise he finds a camera that has been encrusted by a barnacle. The boy is astonished by his discovery and all the treasures it holds.

The book is almost like a comic. He incorporates strips on many pages showing the transition of the young boy‘s thoughts.

Wiesner got his story across very evidently with this book using no words. I think children would really enjoy looking at these photos and imagining what the story would be if it had words.

Flotsam by David Wiesner published in 2006 told a story of a boy‘s curious day on the beach. He finds a camera that has washed ashore.

my favorite part was the last page when it is passed on to the next young girl

This was my favorite picture! I love the blowfish as a hot air balloon

absolutely love this book. not typically a fan of picture only books but I really enjoyed the storyline, the awesome pictures and my most favorite part was the underwater pictures that were so creative and fun

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I love this no word book. It would be fun to write a story for this book.

There is so much precise detail in these illustrations.

This is a great story, even though it doesn‘t have words. The illustrations are wonderful!

Caldecott winner. This is another wonderful book for small groups of young children. It‘s so engaging and fun and has lots for kids to point out and look at and be interested in.

Flotsam by David Wiesner, 2006. This is another wonderful, wordless story. The amazing illustrations tell more than word ever could. It is wonderfully engaging fun to follow along with. It follows such an interesting journey that never ends.

I love that this book can have so many interpretations.

A great picture book that is in a comic book form. The pictures show a great representation for the imagination children can have. I imagine a child coming up with the words to the story.

This is a picture book but a quote that I would make up is when the boy sees the pictures of the other children. That's crazy.

I thought this book was really cool because it was so weird and abstract. The coolest part was that the sea creatures were carrying the camera all over the place.

Caldecott and was written in 2006. This is also a picture but it doesnt have any words. This story takes place on the beach where a young boy finds a camera with very abstract ideas on each photo. He then finds a photo of a girl that the camera is to belong to. He goes on to see that it's gone through generations of children that find it next to the beach. He throws it back to sea so that the next child can it and use it.

I think children will really enjoy the bright pictures in this book.

Flotsam by David Wiesnar is a Caldecott award winning book. In this book a young boy finds a camera filled with amazing pictures. He takes a photo of himself and sends in back into the ocean for another child to find.

David Weisner is the creative illustrator of the Caldecott winning wordless picture book "Flotsam" (SF). The bright pictures tell the story of a boy at the beach who finds a camera washed up on shore. He develops the film and finds pictures of the fantastical things it comes across throughout the ocean deep and many years. This is a good Storytelling option because teachers get to help students fill in the story for themselves. #lae3414sp19

This book is told only in pictures, but tells the story of a boy finding something washed up on the beach that leads him to discovering the origins of it and then creating his own image for someone else to discover later. Super cute

Beautifully pictured book that shows how people are all connected in some way.

Illustrations are beautifully detailed. Picture book, plot flows well from picture to picture. Young boy finds an underwater camera that contains pictures of life under the sea, along with many pictures of pictures of children from around the world. Characters are diverse and some date back from when there was no color photos. Flotsam, David Wiesner. The Caldecott Medal. 2006.

Literally just looked up this word and it makes perfect sense for the title! LOVED the illustrations for this book, as it was like a mini GN & provided a cute story about a “flotsam” underwater camera that makes its way to this boy & has amazing images taken under the sea & on land 💕 A cute, must-read!!
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