Flotsam

Magnificent. Books without words can be so much fun, and this one certainly is. The art is beautiful (surprisingly moving, in fact) and utterly captivating. I love the look on the boy's face when he looks at the first photo. The octopus in their living room gave me agood laugh. The starfish scene–I want that painting on my wall.

I read this in my Illustrating Children's Books class I'm taking. It's a wordless story of a kid finding a camera on the beach. It's visually similar to a comic book — there are a lot of action to action moments broken up into panels on the page. I've come to discover the artist's style often is somewhat realistically rendered yet the events that comprise each story are quite bizarre.