Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro has said of Flotsam, "Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages. Children go on to read and reflect on the book, making predictions and retelling orally and in writing. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards in the US and all over the globe. Three of the picture books he both wrote and illustrated became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award's long history to have won three times.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.However, at that moment a wave hits washing all the photos away, but regardless the boy tosses the camera back into the ocean to start the cycle over again. Flotsam has won the 2007 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children. As an optional additional study, this could also link to a study of the history of cameras and report writing about this and could include a historical link about the way cameras have changed the way history is recorded.

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. Many versions are sketched and revised until the story line flows smoothly and each image works the way he wants it to.

Wiesner's wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor,". This wordless book's vivid watercolour paintings have a crisp realism that anchors the elements of fantasy. One thing I found hard to explain was developing photographs in today's world but we loved the book anyway.

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. They consist of a robot fish, an octopus reading, a pufferfish being used as a hot air balloon, turtles with cities on their backs, tiny visiting aliens, and giant starfish with islands on their backs. He went on to become a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was able to commit himself to the full-time study of art and to explore further his passion for visual storytelling. Using his magnifying glass and microscope, he finds that the first is of a boy in old clothes from about a century ago waving.

Wiesner offers another exceptional, wordless picture book that finds wild magic in quiet, everyday settings. 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.