DAVID WIESNER 1st/1st FLOTSAM Caldecott Winner MINT!!

Description: This listing is for a 2006 US 1st Edition/1st Printing of FLOTSAM by the 3 TIME CALDECOTT award winning author DAVID WIESNER!! This was the 2007 WINNER of the CALDECOTT AWARD for BEST ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK This is a US TRUE 1st Printing in F/F Condition... Condition is as follows: Fine/Fine - MINT AS NEW. Book has sharp corners with no lean and tight binding and is COMPLETELY UNOPENED and UNREAD. DJ is not price clipped, is NOT a Bookclub. Overall is Crisp and Bright - F/F - in collector's condition... This is very giftable... Please note the Dust Jacket does NOT have the Caldecott Medal on it - that means it is a first state DJ without the medal. This is a 1st/1st just as released from the publisher before it was awarded the Caldecott Medal! This is a US First Edition/First Printing - it has a complete numberline with the numbers 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as well as the words which is the correct indicator for a first printing for this title. Winning Bidder pays $4.50 for Media Mail Shipping (up to 7-14 days) or $13.85 for Priority Shipping (2-4 days) - this will be LOVINGLY wrapped so it arrives in it's original fabulous condition. I GLADLY ship worldwide so please email for worldwide shipping costs. Payment must be received within 7 days of auction end - please email with any questions! Please check out my other items that I have up for auction and listed in my store! I am always listing wonderful Rare Books and Signed First Editions, as well as special Antiques found on my many travels across the US and Europe... ABOUT THE BOOK FLOTSAM From the Publisher A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep. In each of his amazing picture books, David Wiesner has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to the Empire State Building, a well-known nursery tale. This time, a day at the beach is the springboard into a wildly imaginative exploration of the mysteries of the deep, and of the qualities that enable us to witness these wonders and delight in them. Child Magazine Though wordless, this intriguing book is a storytelling marvel. With stunning, meticulously painted watercolors, award-winning Wiesner tells the fanciful tale of a young boy who discovers an old-fashioned camera washed up on the beach. The developed film reveals fantastical underwater shots, including octopi reading in armchairs and elaborate cities built of seashells. Children will savor the magic of this surreal underwater world and the book's mind-bending conclusion. (Ages 4 to 6) Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2006 Publishers Weekly Two-time Caldecott winner Wiesner (Tuesday; The Three Pigs) crafts another wordless mystery, this one set on an ordinary beach and under an enchanted sea. 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. 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. In the opening panels, Wiesner pictures another close-up eye, this one belonging to a blond boy viewing a crab through a magnifying glass. Visual devices binoculars and a microscope in a plastic bag rest on a nearby beach towel, suggesting the boy's optical curiosity. After being tossed by a wave, the studious boy finds a barnacle-covered apparatus on the sand (evocatively labeled the "Melville Underwater Camera"). He removes its roll of film and, when he gets the results, readers see another close-up of his wide-open, astonished eye: the photos depict bizarre undersea scenes (nautilus shells with cutout windows, walking starfish-islands, octopi in their living room la Tuesday's frogs). A lesser fantasist would end the story here, but Wiesner provides a further surprise that connects the curious boy with others like him. Masterfully altering the pace with panel sequences and full-bleed spreads, he fills every inch of the pages with intricate, imaginative watercolor details. New details swim into focus with every rereading of this immensely satisfying excursion. Ages 5-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Children's Literature A budding young scientist has brought his magnifying glass, binoculars, and microscope to the beach. As his parents relax, he begins to explore even before the title page. On the double-spread title page is an exhibition of some of the flotsam to be found. Then the wordless story of his investigations begins. We are sucked in immediately by Wiesner's photorealistic images and the fashion in which they are presented. Double-page scenes show us the sweep of the ocean beach. A waterproof camera washes up in front of him, and in several varying sized rectangular scenes we see his vain attempts to discover the owner. A trip to the photo shop with the roll of film produces for him scenes of magical underwater life. There is also a photo of a young girl holding a packet of photos of other youngsters. Puzzling over this leads to examination under the magnifying glass and eventually the microscope. There he moves to further and further magnification of the pictures inside the pictures each child is holding, as the magnification rises to 70x and the scenes go back in time. Our hero thinks, then takes his own picture with the camera holding the other photos, and returns the camera to the undersea world. Finally it is washed ashore where a young girl reaches toward it, and the tale can go on. Mystery and humor combine in the watercolors that fascinate and stimulate further imagination. Note the different jacket and cover. School Library Journal K-Gr 4-A wave deposits an old-fashioned contraption at the feet of an inquisitive young beachcomber. It's a "Melville underwater camera," and the excited boy quickly develops the film he finds inside. The photos are amazing: a windup fish, with intricate gears and screwed-on panels, appears in a school with its living counterparts; a fully inflated puffer, outfitted as a hot-air balloon, sails above the water; miniature green aliens kowtow to dour-faced sea horses; and more. The last print depicts a girl, holding a photo of a boy, and so on. As the images become smaller, the protagonist views them through his magnifying glass and then his microscope. The chain of children continues back through time, ending with a sepia image of a turn-of-the-20th-century boy waving from a beach. After photographing himself holding the print, the youngster tosses the camera back into the ocean, where it makes its way to its next recipient. This wordless book's vivid watercolor paintings have a crisp realism that anchors the elements of fantasy. Shifting perspectives, from close-ups to landscape views, and a layout incorporating broad spreads and boxed sequences, add drama and motion to the storytelling and echo the photographic theme. Filled with inventive details and delightful twists, each snapshot is a tale waiting to be told. Pair this visual adventure with Wiesner's other works, Chris Van Allsburg's titles, or Barbara Lehman's The Red Book (Houghton, 2004) for a mind-bending journey of imagination.-Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews From arguably the most inventive and cerebral visual storyteller in children's literature, comes a wordless invitation to drift with the tide, with the story, with your eyes, with your imagination. A boy at the beach picks up a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera. He develops the film, which produces, first, pictures of a surreal undersea world filled with extraordinary details (i.e., giant starfish bestride the sea carrying mountainous islands on their backs), and then a portrait of a girl holding a picture of a boy holding a picture of another boy . . . and so on . . . and on. Finally, the boy needs a microscope to reveal portraits of children going back in time to a sepia portrait of a turn-of-the-century lad in knickers. The boy adds his own self-portrait to the others, casts the camera back into the waves, and it is carried by a sea creature back to its fantastic depths to be returned as flotsam for another child to find. In Wiesner's much-honored style, the paintings are cinematic, coolly restrained and deliberate, beguiling in their sibylline images and limned with symbolic allusions. An invitation not to be resisted. (Picture book. 6-11) David Wiesner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Wiesner (born February 5, 1956) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" and he was one of five finalists in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available for creators of children's books. Wiesner was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration. Career Wiesner's first book was Honest Andrew, a picture book with text by Gloria Skurzynski, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1980. That year he also illustrated a novel by Avi, Man From the Sky (Knopf, 1980). After illustrating a dozen or more books with other writers, he and his wife Kim Kahng co-wrote Loathsome Dragon, a picture book with his illustrations that G.P. Putnam's published in 1987. Since then Wiesner has created many picture books solo—as writer and illustrator, or stories without words. Free Fall (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988) was a Caldecott Honor Book, a runner-up for the annual Caldecott Medal, conferred by the American Library Association on the illustrator of the year's best-illustrated picture book. Free Fall was the first example of the predominant style of his solo books, which tell a fantastical, often dream-like story without words, only illustrations. Subsequently he won three Caldecott Medals for solo picture books—Tuesday (1991), The Three Pigs (2001), and Flotsam (2006)—and he was one of the runners-up for Sector 7 (1999) and Mr. Wuffles! (2013). Marcia Brown is the only other person to win three Caldecotts, from 1955 to 1983.) In January 2017, Wiesner had a retrospective art exhibition entitled David Wiesner & the Art of Wordless Storytelling at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. In the exhibition Wiesner showed his work highlights throughout the years of his career. The exhibition ended May 14, 2017 at SBMA and continued rotating through museums to current day. WorksAs writer and illustrator1987 Loathsome Dragon, retold by Wiesner and Kim Kahng1988 Free Fall1990 Hurricane1991 Tuesday1992 June 29, 19991999 Sector 72001 The Three Pigs2006 FlotsamArt & Max2013 Mr. Wuffles!2018 I Got It! As illustrator1980 Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski1980 Man from the Sky by Avi1981 Ugly Princess by Nancy Luenn1981 One Bad Thing about Birthdays by David R. Collins1981 Boy who Spoke Chimp by Jane Yolen1982 Owly by Mike Thaler1982 Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk by Jane Yolen1983 Miranty and the Alchemist by Vera Chapman1984 Dark Green Tunnel by Allan W. Eckert1985 E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle; based on the film story by Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison1986 Kite Flier by Dennis Haseley1988 Firebrat by Nancy Willard1989 The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep1989 The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Marianna Mayer1991 Tongues of Jade by Laurence Yep1994 Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting Other1989 Cover for The Glass Salamander by Ann Downer1997 Story and Design for CD-ROM adventure game The Day the World Broke FIRST ED 1ST EDITION SIGNED AUTOGRAPH AUTOGRAPHED FLATSIGNED FLAT CALDECOT CALDECOTT NEWBERY NEWBERRY AWARD WINNERS

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