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We have a collection of picture books and I'm rereading some. I just love these, the illustrations are wonderful. Tagged book has no words. Glad we have grandkids to share them with. Published 2001 and 2006.

This book is a good book for students to infer and does not contain any words throughout.

This book has no words just pictures so students can make their own assumptions about the story which I found super interesting.

This book can be creative and engaging for students as well as allow students use there imaginations

“You never know what you might find on a boring day at the beach.”

This book is great for teaching about perspectives and history. I would follow up with an activity making time capsules.

Caldecott Medal Winner
Published 2006
Flotsam is a wordless picture book about a boy who is at the beach when an old underwater camera washes ashore. When he gets the film developed, he is given a peek inside what life is like in the ocean. The illustrations capture the magical, whimsical mood of the story with the details in underwater photos. As the story develops, the boy finds out the camera has quite some history.

If I were in a higher grade level, I would show my students the wonderful pictures in this book and have them write a persuasive letter about ocean pollution. For lower grades, i would have the students respond to their reaction of the book with their own art, since art is the most prevalent thing in the book.

This book is a wordless book that helps children use their interpretation and imagination skills. On each page, the realistic illustrations are set up in a different way to help create a different flow throughout the book.

I wouldn‘t use this book in my class because I didn‘t enjoy it very much

Not very interesting to me. A little confusing to follow along with the story

This book can be great for young children not yet at the reading age to follow along with pictures to teach the parts of a book and how to navigate flipping through pages.

This books use only pictures to tell a story about a young boy who discovers an underwater camera washed up on the shore.

No words in this book.

I would use this for children to explain stories and recreate in a way where each person can form a new story and share it and compare because each person explains and sees different details.

flotsam by David Wiesner, 2006- caldecott. This book has no words so it very much focuses on the images and the sense of wonder the reader gets. The images are amazing with deltais that wont overwelm you but just enough to notice different things. It shows the pattern of a child at the beach and everything he finds through out his time on a new object

This is a great book for open questions and conversation! Students could use their imagination to create a why behind the pictures!

Flotsam By David Wiesner - 2006 Caldecott
This book was filled with bright colors and vivid images! It has a very intriguing personality as you are reading. It leaves many thoughts in your head and open for ideas and thoughts.

Very powerful and imaginative illustrations. I especially liked the mermaids and the fish in a hot air balloon.

Flotsam by David Wiesney, 2006. Caldecott Award Winning book. This book contains colorful and detailed illustrations that depict the character‘s emotions. There are realistic and unrealistic images such as people on a beach and a sea creature reading a book on a couch. This story taps into a world of imagination for children.

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.

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