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October 21, 2016

31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 21

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

TGIF, my friends!

At last the weekend is upon us.  Hope you have something fun planned.  I am hoping to be able to check off a couple more activities from my autumn bucket list by Sunday evening.

We are three weeks into this “31 Days of Children’s Books”.  Twenty-one days down, ten to go.  This is a LOOONG month!  Never fear, I haven’t begun to run out of “material” for this series.  But wish I could come up with an exciting new way to share the books with you.  Thinking I might, might try a video but don’t hold me to that.  And still hopeful that I can figure out a way to share one of my former TV shows with you.

Continuing with Caldecott Award winners today.  Have a imaginative wordless picture book for you.  The 2007 winner Flotsam by David Wiesner.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21This was the third Caldecott Medal winning book for author/illustrator David Wiesner.  His book Tuesday was the 1992 winner, and Wiesner’s Three Little Pigs won in 2002.

Through watercolor and gouache paintings, Wiesner imparts the story of a young, aspiring-oceanographer’s day at the beach.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21What begins as a study of the ocean critters that wash up on the beach, soon takes an unexpected turn when a vintage camera floats to shore.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

So very old and vintage is this “Melville Underwater Camera”, that it requires rolls of film.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21Raise your hand if you have ever used a camera that required a roll of film.  Me, too.

For those whose hands are down, do you know what to do with a roll of film?  You take it to be developed.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21While you wait for the pictures to be developed…an eternity, one hour…you buy more film, of course.  I would guess that if you have just discovered this roll of film laying around or perhaps in a camera that floated up out of the ocean, you are going to be very interested to see the pictures.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21Once you get your hands on them, you study the developed photographs, very carefully.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21You might wonder, hmm, how was that photo even taken?  Me, too.  And then there’s this one.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

Another photo that begs to be inspected more closely.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21One that reveals even more under magnification.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

And right about here would be a good place to ask the children you are sharing the book with what they predict has happened.  Who are these children in the illustrations and what are each of them holding?  You might ask what your little one would want to do next.

Maybe this?

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21Then what?  This?

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, too.  What would happen now?  The end?  No, not yet.

In the wondrous world of this wordless picture book, anything is possible.

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

Ah-ha!  Now we know how the underwater seascapes came to be.  But is this where the book ends?

I’ll never tell.  You’ll have to get a copy of Flotsam to see for yourself.  Or maybe ask your little one to finish the story.

Purchase David Wiesner’s beautiful books on Amazon, here.  Including his other Caldecott Award winners,

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21and his three Caldecott Honor books,

31 Days of Children's Books, Day 21

Meet David Wiesner on his webpage and on his blog.

And I leave you with this, a video taste of this delicious book, Flotsam.  Enjoy!

Hugs and kisses,

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. AvatarWhitney @ Whitney à la mode says

    October 22, 2016 at 2:49 pm

    What beautiful illustrations! You are the children’s book aficionado!

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