![]() ![]() ![]() Before the notorious high-wire walk across the twin towers, he also walks a high-wire on the Notre Dame where he lived in Paris, France. With considerable deliberation and planning, he finally achieves his dream coup one early August morning in 1974. The story follows the French street performer turned high-wire artist, Philippe Petit, as he attempts what he describes as 'the coup of the century.' Once the idea of walking a high-wire between the twin towers occurs, Philippe Petit becomes obsessed with it. ![]() The book has been adapted into a film and a ballet. Gerstein won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations. Published in 2003, the book recounts the achievement of Philippe Petit, a French man who walked on a tightrope wire between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by the American author Mordicai Gerstein. ![]()
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