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.