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Title: The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein ISBN: 0-7613-1791-0 Publisher: Millbrook Press Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The view from here is grand!
Comment: My understanding of the Caldecott Medal is that is awarded to an outstanding picture book artist and that the text can be inconsequential in consideration of the award.
That being the case, there is no doubt that The Man Who Walked Between the Towers deserves its prize. A fascinating snapshot of time is captured in this book with an amazing eye towards unusual perspectives and views and innovative page designs, including two fold outs.
While the text of the story is a little awkward, it gets the point across. Gerstein seems to end Petit's story before the book ends and uses the final pages to focus the reader on the World Trade Center, not Petit, leaving the reader a little unsure if the book is a memorial to Petit or to the towers.
Ultimately, one is not unhappy to end up calling it a little bit of both.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank you Mr. Gerstein!
Comment: This is an incredible book that deals with a subject we all seem to want to avoid....children and September 11th. September 11th certainly isn't the focus of this beautiful book, but the sense of loss is lurking in the background. The illustrations are so true to the location and bring back many memories of a place that will be forever changed, but hopefully never forgotten. This book is for children and adults alike...and absolutely deserves a place on the coffee tables of every reception area in the Financial District of New York. The World Trade Center existed...the people who were lost that terrible day existed...and happily Phillipe Pettit's walk between the twin towers existed too. Thank you Mr. Gerstein, your book is a beautiful tribute to a place i will mourn forever.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very daring frenchman
Comment: The year was 1974, Phillippe Petit gazes upon the twin towers. He is a French aerialist, a street performer. He juggles and rides a unicycle, but most of all he likes to walk on a rope he tied between two trees. One day he looked at the World Trade Center. He was barely looking at the towers themselves, more at the space between them. He had walked a rope between other high places; why not there? One day he came up with a plan to get atop the twin towers. What happened? Just read "The Man Who Walked Between The Towers"
And even though there's only a ghostly picture of the World Trade Center left in our mind, we will always remember the daring man who once walked between them.
This book was a great experience to read, but just reading it made me feel like I was waaaaaay too high up.
I would recommend this book to adults and children alike.
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page, Steve Jenkins ISBN: 0618256288 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine ISBN: 0152164138 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems ISBN: 078681988X Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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