Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Flotsam by David Wiesner (2006)

Just thought I'd check out a few of the latest Caldecott winners. When I started looking at this and found it had no words, and it was just a kid on the beach, I was disappointed, but then when he finds an old underwater camera and finds film inside which he has developed, I became fascinated. The imagination of Wiesner is just wonderful. Combining the real and fanciful. Like the octopus family sitting on living room furniture, but in the background you can see a moving truck upended, so the furniture could have fallen out of that.... Anyway, pure joy!

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