Flotsam: 1

Product Information

The kids enjoyed this book as well. Now they want to take a camera to the beach. We don't have an underwater camera and I don't think they quite get the difference. They couldn't believe each pictures that got developed. Look at a map and find your closest beach. How far away is it? How could you travel there? How long might the journey take? Explain that they’re going to create an imaginary undersea creature, using pegs to secure their objects together.

Borrow some old-fashioned cameras and ask children to explore them. Weigh and measure the cameras, as if they are scientific specimens and make notes about the materials used. Describe what can be seen, felt and heard. Draw the cameras from different angles, as accurately as possible. The wonder of this picture book is that it has no words! The story is told by the illustrations alone. A story about a boy who finds an underwater camera washed up on the shore of his local beach and makes discoveries both fanciful and unusual when her gets the film he found in the camera developed. I read through it several times, seeing more each time I did. This book was selected as one of the January 2011 - Wordless Picture Book reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads. Make a collection of old photographic portraits – the sort available cheaply in postcard form from antique markets work well. Awards List". www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . Retrieved 24 November 2014.Talk about the idea of ‘six degrees of separation’. How many countries are your children connected with, via holidays or links with family and friends? How might you present this information in charts or diagrams? The story begins with a curious boy who is visiting the beach. He has an interest in beach life and brings a multitude of exploration tools with him. As he’s exploring, a wave comes, and brings with it a strange looking camera. It resembles an underwater camera. He takes out the film and decides to have the film developed at the one hour photo department. The pictures he gets from the camera are amazing and show pictures of underwater sea life, including some strange mechanical fish. Within the photos he notices something strange and uses his microscope to figure it out. What he sees is surprising. Follow along in the story to see what he decides to do with it. Each question can be answered many times by different children. Share the questions and answers, discussing each picture as you go. You’ll need several copies of the book, so that children can follow the illustrations in small groups.

Flotsam is a children's wordless picture book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal; [1] the third win for David Wiesner. The book contains illustrations of underwater life with no text to accompany them. Flotsam” is a 2007 Caldecott Award winning book by David Wiesner, author of the popular books, “Tuesday” and “The Three Pigs.” In this story, a young boy discovers a mysterious camera from the sea that eventually shows him another world under the sea. “Flotsam” is surely one classic that cannot be beat. In the same place, close to trees and plants that will change with the seasons, photograph a different child at weekly intervals.There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Word List Words In time, the young Wiesner began exploring the history of art, delving into the Renaissance at first — Michelangelo, Dürer, and da Vinci — then moving on to such surrealists as Magritte, de Chirico, and Dalí. As he got older, he would sit, inspired by these masters, at the oak drafting table his father had found for him and would construct new worlds on paper and create wordless comic books, such as Slop the Wonder Pig, and silent movies, like his kung fu vampire film The Saga of Butchula.