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Flotsam

by David Wiesner

Caldecott Medal · 2007 · Winner
Clarion BookschildrensISBN 9780618194575

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Caldecott Medal2007Winner

About This Book

A wordless picture book in which a boy finds a camera washed up on the beach and discovers extraordinary underwater photographs within. Each image opens onto a world of fantastic marine life. Winner of the 2007 Caldecott Medal.

About the Author

David Wiesner is an American author and illustrator of children's picture books born in Bridgewater, New Jersey in 1956. He has won the Caldecott Medal three times—for *Tuesday* (1992), *The Three Pigs* (2002), and *Flotsam* (2007). He is the only illustrator to have won the medal three times with wordless or nearly wordless books.

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