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Wiesner has always been intrigued by and curious about what comes before and after the captured image.Scrolling through the photos, the boy discovers various images of children who previously found the camera and the images and who posted a self photo.

Ultimately, he tosses the camera back into the sea, where it's carried away by various creatures until it again washes ashore for a new child to find.Reduce the size using a photocopier, then stick onto the next drawing to act as the ‘photograph’ in the character’s hands. Whole Class Reading resources and planning for Year 2, in a zip file based on David Wiesner’s ‘Flotsam’.

A great fantasy story for kids, but there’s also a lot of science thrown in and objects to talk about and explain.As a child growing up in suburban New Jersey, Wiesner re-created his world daily in his imagination. Check out our brilliant Plastic Pollution and Environmental Resources to support the teaching of looking after the world around us - you could download our fantastic All About Plastic Pollution Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity as a home learning task.

A mysterious camera would be something a child would want to keep so the lesson here is to see if the boy understands the long-term goal of the obviously amazing camera. A young boy is by the seashore and engrossed in looking at a few sea creatures when a large wave overtakes him and deposits an old underwater camera at his feet. There he met two people who would figure prominently in his life: Tom Sgouros, to whom Tuesday is dedicated, and David Macaulay, to whom The Three Pigs is dedicated. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Pair them, asking them to mirror each other’s movements, then progress to a ‘conversation’, where one child makes a movement answered by a different movement from their partner.We always recommend that teachers have at least one copy of the book and read the original text with their pupils, then switch to the amended version that is based on the original. This book was selected as one of the January 2011 - Wordless Picture Book reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.