He has the film developed and the pictures he sees are otherworldly: Giant starfish sparring, flying blow fish, turtle with a shell town on his back, and octopus immersed in reading a bedtime story to its babies, to name a few. Read moreĬharacters: The boySetting: BeachTheme: Imagined world of under the sea, custom passed down from past and passing it down, discovery, adventure Summary: A boy discovers a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera on the seashore. It makes you wonder, and so does this book. My favorite fact about the ocean is that we know more about space than we do about the ocean. The ocean is such a beautiful and mysterious beast and Wiesner captured this in a perfectly whimsical way with 'Flotsam'.

I thought it might involve a lot more playing with dolphins than it actually does. When I was a young child I wanted to be a marine biologist before I knew that the profession meant being a scientist. I enjoyed this book especially as a lover of the ocean. At the end, the nameless boy takes a photo of himself and hurls the camera into the ocean for some other lucky beachcomber to find. The illustrations show robot fish trying to blend in, mermaids partying, and the other children who have stumbled across the camera as well. A little boy finds it on the beach and discovers that the camera has photos of marine animals and supposedly mythical creatures in their natural state. Without words the book follows the story of a mysterious underwater camera. David Wiesner's books are beautiful! 'Flotsam' is no exception to this fact.

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