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Flotsam won the Caldecott Medal in 2007 as well as being recognised by several other awards, and was chosen as the New York Times best illustrated children’s book that year.

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. One thing I found hard to explain was developing photographs in today's world but we loved the book anyway. This is a three-week Writing Root for Flotsam by David Wiesner in which children dicsover a range of ‘Flotsam’ items (either after a visit to the seaside, or that have appeared in the classroom). These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots.David Wiesner is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling and has won the Caldecott Medal three times--for Tuesday , The Three Pigs , and Flotsam --the second person in history to do so. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards in the United States and abroad. Es una bonita historia, con elementos de fantasía, sin texto con el que los niños y niñas, o sus madres y madres, podrán relatar lo que le ocurre al protagonista a través de las imágenes por si mismos. This book is about a boy who finds a camera on the beach I like this book because it is interesting.

It is carried across the ocean by a variety of fish, sea life, the artic, and even a city of mermaids until it again washes ashore and another child finds it.A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore.

The final photo consists of a girl, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a girl, and so on. The author and illustrator, David Wiesner, is famous for creating other wordless texts, such as Tuesday and Free Fall. Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Flotsam is a great example of a wordless picture book that creates engagement through its detailed sequence of images, rather than its text and, as such, requires a high level of inference. This wordless book's vivid watercolour paintings have a crisp realism that anchors the elements of fantasy.

Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro has said of Flotsam, "Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages. As his parents tell him it was time to go, he decided to continue the chain by using the camera to take a picture of himself.

He creates three-dimensional models of objects he can't observe in real life, such as flying pigs and lizards standing upright, to add authenticity to his drawings. I think the story having no words encourages a deeper level of engagement, and both the story and the drawings are wonderfully inventive.