The man who walked between the towers / Mordicai Gerstein.
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TextPublication details: Brookfield, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: - 0761317910 (trade ed.)
- 0761328688 (lib. bdg.)
- 791.3/4/092 B 21
- GV551 .G47 2003
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 791.34 G383 | 2004 | Available | Newbery/Caldecott Award Winner | 33111003818321 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.