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The man who walked between the towers

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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.

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Availability

10689

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Picture Book

Available

Detail Information

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Call Number

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Publisher

New York, USA : Holtzbrinck Publisher., 2003

Collation

36 pages : illustration ; 27 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780312368784

Classification

NONE

Content Type

text

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Perseverance (Ethics)
Tightrope walking
Daredevils
Aerialists

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