While this may be a little bit unorthodox for Reading to the Rain, Flotsam is the best book i’ve looked at in ages. This is the most recent Caldecott Medal winner (an award given annually to the best children’s illustrations) in fact this book doesn’t contain a single word of text. This wordless book is beautiful, poignant, mysterious, exciting, and thought provoking. It shows the story of a boy on a beach, when a mysterious underwater camera washes up on shore. He develops the film inside to discover an exciting and fantastical underwater world. Then the last picture is a picture of pictures reaching back to the past and showing all the children who have ever dicovered the same thing. I really recommend this book to anyone, not just children or those who read to them.