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

by Mordicai Gerstein

Philippe Petit’s high-wire feat between the towers

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  • Award recognition

    Caldecott Medal winner

    The book is identified as a winner of the Caldecott Medal.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Philippe Petit’s high-wire feat between the towers

Mordicai Gerstein recounts Philippe Petit’s 1974 walk on a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers. The picture book centers on the hour Petit spent walking, dancing, and performing tricks high above the ground. Its account pairs text with paintings, while two foldout spreads present the scale and height of the feat. The subject brings together aerial performance, a real event, and the dramatic setting of the towers, giving the book a clear focus on one extraordinary moment in performance history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 interested in real-life feats and performers
  • Families seeking a picture-book biography connected to aerial arts
  • Young readers curious about the World Trade Center towers and their history

Themes

Aerial performanceCourage and daringBiographyThe World Trade Center

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Book overview

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 Caldecott Medal, winner of the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.

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