{"product_id":"the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers-9780761317913","title":"The Man Who Walked Between the Towers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's \u003ci\u003eThe Walk, \u003c\/i\u003estarring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMordicai Gerstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Roaring Brook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726159221010,"sku":"9780761317913","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb065929-2e10-4d57-abb0-5c929ddcc00c.jpg?v=1734855769","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers-9780761317913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}