Author: -David Wiesner
Title: -Flotsam
Illustrator: -David Wiesner
Publisher: -Clarion Books
Year: -2006
Format: -Hardcover Book
Genre: -Picture Book (No Text)
Reading Level: -Assisted Reader
Interest Level: -Preschool, Early Elementary
Topics: -Sea, Underwater, Pictures, Beach.
Summary: -Flotsam is about a little boy who accidentally leaves his camera behind on a trip to the beach. It is an underwater camera, and the boy decides to develop the pictures once he gets it. He finds all these pictures of underwater creatures and is so interested in the underwater world, he even finds pictures of kids long ago who found the camera just like him. In the end, he decides to take a picture of himself on the beach and then throw the camera back for some new, lucky kid to find. The illustrations in this book are greatly detailed and show great descriptions of the underwater world you step into by each page you turn.
Illustrator: -David Wiesner
Publisher: -Clarion Books
Year: -2006
Format: -Hardcover Book
Genre: -Picture Book (No Text)
Reading Level: -Assisted Reader
Interest Level: -Preschool, Early Elementary
Topics: -Sea, Underwater, Pictures, Beach.
Summary: -Flotsam is about a little boy who accidentally leaves his camera behind on a trip to the beach. It is an underwater camera, and the boy decides to develop the pictures once he gets it. He finds all these pictures of underwater creatures and is so interested in the underwater world, he even finds pictures of kids long ago who found the camera just like him. In the end, he decides to take a picture of himself on the beach and then throw the camera back for some new, lucky kid to find. The illustrations in this book are greatly detailed and show great descriptions of the underwater world you step into by each page you turn.
Extension Activities:
-Have each child draw a full page picture of any beach or ocean they have gone to, on the back side draw what they would see underwater. Have them make detailed illustrations just like David Wiesner does in Flotsam.
-Have each child make an illustration that has to do with a vacation they have been on, or a place they would like to go. Explain with the picture why they would be so intrigued with this certain place.
