Flotsam
Ranked #7 in Recursion, Ranked #8 in Ocean — see more rankings.
Winner of the 2007 Caldecott Medal
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.
Each of David Wiesner's amazing picture books has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to... more
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.
Each of David Wiesner's amazing picture books has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to... more
Rankings by Category
Flotsam is ranked in the following categories:
- #84 in Award-Winning
- #10 in Beach
- #21 in Fish
- #17 in Illustration
- #66 in Imagination
- #27 in Marine Biology
- #40 in Picture
- #48 in Water
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