7/6/2023 0 Comments Flotsam picture book![]() ![]() After being tossed by a wave, the studious boy finds a barnacle-covered apparatus on the sand (evocatively labeled the "Melville Underwater Camera"). Visual devices-binoculars and a microscope in a plastic bag-rest on a nearby beach towel, suggesting the boy's optical curiosity. In the opening panels, Wiesner pictures another close-up eye, this one belonging to a blond boy viewing a crab through a magnifying glass. First-timers might not notice what's reflected in its eye, but return visitors will: it's a boxy camera, drifting underwater with a school of slim green fish. A saucerlike fish's eye stares from the exact center of the dust jacket, and the fish's scarlet skin provides a knockout background color. ) crafts another wordless mystery, this one set on an ordinary beach and under an enchanted sea. Two-time Caldecott winner Wiesner ( Tuesday ![]()
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