| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780618194575 | | Publisher: Clarion Books | | Publish Date: 10/11/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202707644 | | Item#: RCSSVK | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 106388 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 11.5H x 9.75L x 0.5T | | Pages: 40 | | Age Range: 9 to 12 |
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| | | In this wordless masterpiece from a two-time Caldecott medalist, a bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Full color.
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The 2007 Caldecott Medal-winner is a detailed, beautifully illustrated wordless picture book that follows a boy?s experiences with a camera discovered at the sea shore. As the nameless boy is playing on the sand, an old-fashioned box camera washes up. He gets the film inside developed and discovers an exciting, unexpected undersea world filled with unique and inventive creatures. Both a 2006 New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.
| Praise| "In Wiesner's much-honored style, the paintings are cinematic, coolly restrained and deliberate, beguiling in their sibylline images and limned with symbolic allusions. An invitation not to be resisted." 08/01/2006 "Masterfully altering the pace with panel sequences and full-bleed spreads, [Wiesner] fills every inch of the pages with intricate, imaginative watercolor details. New details swim into focus with every rereading of this immensely satisfying excursion." 07/24/2006 "Wiesner's detailed watercolors make the absurd wonderfully believable, his graphic storytelling sense is sure and swift, and children will surely love FLOTSAM from start to finish." - David Small 11/12/2006 |
| Author Bio| David Wiesner | | David Wiesner grew up loving to draw in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and went on to receive a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. Though he was initially not interested in illustrating for children, Wiesner?s early foray into creating cover art for a popular kid?s magazine, Cricket, put him an extremely successful path that garnered the artist several awards. A three-time Caldecott Medal recipient, Wiesner is best known for his gorgeously detailed, wordless (or sparsely worded) picture books. In 2007, he won the Caldecott for FLOTSAM. |
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