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Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book) | 
| Author: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books
Category: Book
List Price: $17.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 1466
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 9.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0618194576
EAN: 9780618194575
ASIN: 0618194576
Publication Date: September 4, 2006
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Condition: Outstanding condition! Brand New!! Clean, tight, and crisp!!
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 68 more reviews...
 Sensational Award Winning Book April 27, 2008
Enigmatic
A multi-sensory experience.
Without words, this book is instantly absorbing you into another time, any time when you were on a beach as a child. Any child, any beach, anywhere. The oblivion of the adults to the power of their surroundings, fully equipped for events that they don't create as they recline in their deck chairs, lost in their summer reading and lost to the summer's day that they are living. Are they living it at all?
You can smell the sea, feel the spray on your face, almost touch the foam with your toes, sense that unique, awful desolation that is a seaside resort in mid-summer. Nothing to do and all day to do it. The energy and wonder of the inquisitive solitary boy is breathtakingly revealed as his story of timeless discovery unfolds and he takes his place in the ebb and flow of life captured in a washed-up camera.
Words could never have conveyed Weisner's meaning so piercingly as the pictures in this enchanting book. Something very reminiscent of the '60s film, "Blow Up" about it, enhanced by the wordless wondering silence in which the boy explores and you read.
Buy this book and remember what it means to be alive.
Pretty and fun April 19, 2008
Really cool paintings that tell a fantastic (in both senses) story about an underwater camera. I like all the detail in the pictures and the way it moves from realistic to stuff that's pretty odd (but who knows what octopus do when they're alone anyway...).
Actually this book might be better for adults than children because you have to be pretty patient and pay attention to what's going on to "get it." But also there's no words, so older kids who can't read might like it.
I saw this at a friend's house and bought one for my living room. We don't have any kids!
Fun! invites deeper thinking. Pictures only April 13, 2008
This book was interesting, somewhat surprisingly I guess, as it tells a story so well, despite not having any words. It definitely invites further, deeper thought. It starts with a boy who has a camera. He develops the pictures, and sees fun pictures of possible life under the sea, and then a picture of a child holding the camera, and other pics. When he looks at this closer, he realizes one of the pictures the child holds is of another child holding a bunch of pics, and so on....
My kids liked it, but I think that I maybe liked it even more, just because it was such a cool idea.
Very interesting. April 7, 2008
Beautiful illistrations though be sure your not looking for a night time read because this story is absent of text. I enjoyed it and I believe my son will enjoy it later when its not so far over his head.
Show . . . Don't Tell March 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will appeal to youngsters old enough to be interested in science and who know a little about magnifying glasses, cameras, microscopes, and how the tides work. David Wiesner leaves lots of room for imagination with this unexpected, wordless story.
The only words you'll find in the book are on the dust jacket (defining flotsam and telling about the "author") and on signs and packages in the illustrations. That leaves lots of room for the "reader's" imagination to work overtime.
If that weren't enough stimulation, Mr. Wiesner puts in some fanciful illustrations that might reflect a child's imagination at work. I can imagine having lots of fun at a sleepover as each child interprets what's going on in the book.
As the book opens, you see a large eye looking at a very funny crab. Then you see the big picture in a two-page spread as a blond-headed, blue-eyed youngster is holding a crab and studying the crab through a magnifying glass. In the background there are two parents reading, shovels, binoculars, a microscope in a plastic bag, snorkel gear, pails full of flotsam, and a small box with a tentacle sticking out. In the background are a sea shell and a huge sand castle. The boy then heads for the water line where he spots a different kind of crab.
When a big wave comes in, the boy is overturned and a most unexpected bit of flotsam appears . . . one that forms the base of the story.
The story was so unexpected and interesting that I've re-read it several times to think about further meanings. I'm sure you'll have the same joy as I did.
An imaginative youngster will have even more.
Take a peek!
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