Flotsam

What a great book! I was talking with a colleague about the weather (yesterday's rains and high tide created flooding), and told her of the detritus I saw in the Woodmere pier, where'd I'd gone during lunchtime.

We wondered whether that detritus was jetsam or flotsam. One of the definitions of flotsam is Flotsam is a children's book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal.American Library Association: URL accessed 27 January 2007, Flotsam is David Wiesner's 3rd Caldecott Medal. ...