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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Mordicai Gerstein

4.17/5 (14607 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 34 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Scholastic Inc.

Edition:: Fourth

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0439700418

ISBN13:: 9780439700412

kindle Asin:: B007P5OX92

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Mordicai Gerstein

4.17/5 (14607 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 34 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Scholastic Inc.

Edition:: Fourth

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0439700418

ISBN13:: 9780439700412

kindle Asin:: B007P5OX92

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