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

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.

Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 10.96h x 8.00w x 0.15d
ISBN: 9780312368784
Language: English