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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Paperback - 2007

by Mordicai Gerstein

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  • Paperback

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour performing high-wire tricks. This Calecott Medal-winning picture book present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petits feat. Full color.

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Square Fish, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
  • Author Mordicai Gerstein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 44
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Square Fish, NY
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G031236878XI4N00
  • ISBN 9780312368784 / 031236878X
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.96 x 8 x 0.15 in (27.84 x 20.32 x 0.38 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 640
  • Library of Congress subjects World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.), Aerialists
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

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.