By living vicariously through the boy all readers will find themselves wondering if the scenes portrayed really happen under the ocean. The main character, a scientific minded, very curious boy, will take you on an ocean adventure. Readers young to old will find themselves eagerly awaiting the next page. Every page has beautiful detail filled illustrations magnificently brought to the reader through water colors by Wiesner. Wiesner magnificently captures the attention of his readers in Flotsam through detailed, brightly painted beach and ocean scenes. This magical, mysterious book leaves its readers to take their imagination to the limit! Each child contributed a photo of themselves while holding the photo of the previous child. The boy takes his own photo then throws the camera back in the ocean leaving the reader to believe that another oceanic adventure is to come. After taking the film from the camera to be developed the boy discovers a magical world of photography, which causes one to wonder, “What may really be in the ocean?” When a picture of a girl holding a photo of a boy, whom is holding a photo of another girl, and so on and so on as another child appears, the curious boy gets out a microscope and discovers the camera has been found by generations of children. The main character of the book, an adventure seeking scientific minded boy, finds an underwater camera washed up on the shore.

In this intriguing wordless picture book, David Wiesner takes his audience on a ocean adventure through the eyes of an underwater camera.

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