“If you have yet to become acquainted with this wonderful book of pictures, I urge you to find a copy and share it with the next child you meet. It is an open door to the imagination all children are eager to find. The just need an adult to point the way.
I believe what initially caught my eye with this picture book for children, as there are far too many picture books for a soul to pay even scant attention to each one, was the title. "Flotsam” Where was "Jetsam"? My memory told me ‘flotsam’ never went anywhere without its brother term, ‘jetsam’. Why was this book only using half the phrase? And what were the awards affixed to the book’s cover? What of the picture on the cover? Fish swimming against an orange background with some manner of orb in the near center of the frame?
I decided to take a moment to open the cover for further investigation, and I discovered a wonderful tale told absent any words. From the start, with the boy walking along the beach, to the discovery of the old camera brought in by the sudden wave, through the array of stunning undersea life revealed, to the touching final picture, connecting a multitude of children through the span of time, this is a story kids will certainly read again and again and again. With the colorful detail in all the pictures, it is a veritable treasure trove, for the imaginative young one, to compose an illimitable number of tales.” - Wendall
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