- Flotsam (book)
Infobox Book
name = Flotsam
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author =David Wiesner
illustrator =David Wiesner
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country = United States
genre = Children's picture book
publisher = Clarion/Houghton Mifflin
release_date = 2006
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isbn = (ISBN 978-0618194575)"Flotsam" is a
children's book written and illustrated byDavid Wiesner . Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of theCaldecott Medal .American Library Association: [http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=146679 American Library Association announces literary award winners.] URL accessed27 January 2007 ,] "Flotsam" is the recipient of David Wiesner's 3rd Caldecott Medal. The book contains illustrations of underwater life with no text to accompany them.Plot
This book has no words, but is told in pictures. A boy is at the beach and finds an old camera. He takes the film to get it developed, and sees photos of fantastical undersea cities and inventions. The last picture is the most interesting, though: it's of a girl, who is holding a photo of a child, who is holding a photo of a child, who is holding a photo of a child, and so on. The boy figures out that he should take a picture of himself holding this photo. So he takes the picture, and tosses the camera back into the ocean; it is carried across the ocean by a variety of fish and sea life, until it again washes ashore and another child finds it.
References
External links
* [http://www.thefishknowthesecret.com Website dedicated to "Flotsam"]
** [http://thefishknowthesecret.com/logs/ Audio interviews with author]
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