The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

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 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. 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. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts. 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. 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. 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.'

Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. 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.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein