Children and parents will like this book because it is a good book and it is interesting - by Cameron age 9. Flotsam is a great example of a wordless picture book that creates engagement through its detailed sequence of images, rather than its text and, as such, requires a high level of inference. This book had such an impact on my 6 year old - when we first ‘read’ it together he actually cried at the ending. One thing I found hard to explain was developing photographs in today's world but we loved the book anyway. The final photo consists of a girl, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a girl, and so on.

Children go on to read and reflect on the book, making predictions and retelling orally and in writing. This is a three-week Writing Root for Flotsam by David Wiesner in which children dicsover a range of ‘Flotsam’ items (either after a visit to the seaside, or that have appeared in the classroom). Wiesner's wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor,". Using his magnifying glass and microscope, he finds that the first is of a boy in old clothes from about a century ago waving.Horn Book Magazine says, "The meticulous and rich detail of Wiesner's watercolors makes the fantasy involving and convincing. I think the story having no words encourages a deeper level of engagement, and both the story and the drawings are wonderfully inventive. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore.

They consist of a robot fish, an octopus reading, a pufferfish being used as a hot air balloon, turtles with cities on their backs, tiny visiting aliens, and giant starfish with islands on their backs. At heart it is a humorous fantasy story that also looks closely at the cyclical nature of life, as well as the ultimate power of nature.Flotsam won the Caldecott Medal in 2007 as well as being recognised by several other awards, and was chosen as the New York Times best illustrated children’s book that year. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards in the US and all over the globe.