Flotsam

    This 2007 Caldecott Award Winner, is written and illustrated by David Wiesner.  It is a wordless book, which relies only on Wiesner's pictures.  The book starts by showing a boy with a camera at the beach.  He then gets the pictures developed and sees amazing underwater inventions and cities.  One picture is of a girl that is holding a picture of another kid, which is holding a picture of another kid, which is holding a picture of another kid for a long line of children.  After this, the boy takes a picture of himself with the picture and throws the camera back into the ocean where he found it.  The camera will wash up on another shore someday to be found hopefully by another child.
   After viewing this book, it is clear that David Wiesner is deseving of the Caldecott Award.  Each page helps to tell the story in a clear and concise manner.  I  am going to project this book on my Smartboard and see how my students respond to a book without words.