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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

On: January 15th, 2010 at 8:10 pm | Number of Comments » 0

I’m always adding to my classroom library with medal winners and during our book fair I picked up The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein,  2004 Caldecott Medal winner.
About the book: This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit’s tight rope walk between Manhattan’s World Trade Center towers in 1974. Gerstein [...]