Author(s): Mordicai Gerstein
No. of Pages: 36 pages
Date Published: 09 Jun 2007
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Format: Paperback | 36 pages
Dimensions: 198 x 274 x 4mm | 160g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, color

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis' 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.