Author/Illustrator: David Wiesner
Format: Hardcover
Published: Clarion Books, 2006

2007 Caldecott Medal Winner

The master of the wordless picture book, Caldecott Award-winning illustrator David Wiesner takes readers (viewers?) on another lushly-illustrated flight of fancy with Flotsam. It is an ordinary day at the beach, when a young boy discovers an old-fashioned camera washed up on the shore. Thinking quickly, he has the film developed with astounding results. The photos reveal an octopus reading stories in an underwater living room complete with flowered armchairs, some fish using a pufferfish as a hot air balloon, and tiny space aliens encountering seahorses. Most exciting is the photo of a girl who is hold a photo of a boy who is holding a photo of another boy and so on - around the world and back in time until the boy needs a microscope to see the images.