Flotsam

Author: - David Wiesner

Title: - Flotsam
Illustrator: -David Wiesner
Publisher: -Clarion Books
Year: -2007


Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Caldecott
Reading Level: -Assistant Reader
Interest Level: -Pre School


Topics: -History, ocean, cameras


Summary: - A little boy finds a camera that washed up on the ocean shore and develops the pictures to see what goes on in the ocean. He notices one picture that has a picture of a person and takes another look at the picture. There are many other pictures going back in time. He ends up taking a picture of him holding the picture and throws the camera back into the ocean

Extension Activities: -

Have the kids try the picture holding a picture. Each of them can bring a picture and with a digital camera you can easily print out pictures.

Flotsam

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.

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.