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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers: (Caldecott Medal Winner) - Paperback

by Mordicai Gerstein
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mordicai Gerstein, Mordicai Gerstein (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2007-04-01Pages:44
Language:EnglishPublisher:Square FishISBN-13:9780312368784ISBN-10:031236878XUPC:9780312368784Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Performing ArtsSize:10.96 x 8.00 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCRQ8VSP3R

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Square FishISBN-13:9780312368784ISBN-10:031236878XUPC:9780312368784Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Performing ArtsSize:10.96 x 8.00 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCRQ8VSP3R

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children's books from the library: "I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures."

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
Publisher: Square Fish

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