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Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book) (Hardcover)

by David Wiesner (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 40 pages
  • Publisher: Clarion Books; illustrated edition edition (4 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0618194576
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618194575
  • Product Dimensions: 29 x 23.1 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,610 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A mind-bending journey of imagination."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Show . . . Don't Tell, 27 Mar 2008
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational Award Winning Book, 25 April 2008
By Ms. Patricia M. Cleary "patriciamcleary" (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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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 they are living. Are they living it at all?

You can smell the sea, feel the spray, almost touch the foam, 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 film 'Blow up' about it, enhanced by the wordless wondering silence in which you read it.

Buy this book and remember what it means to be alive.
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