Philippe petit biography wikipedia

2003 picture book by Mordicai Gerstein

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is an American children'spicture book written and illustrated by the American author Mordicai Gerstein.

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. Gerstein won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations.^[1] The book has been adapted into a film and a ballet.

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Synopsis

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, Petit becomes obsessed with it.

With considerable deliberation and planning, he finally achieves his dream coup one early August morning in 1974. Before the notorious high-wire walk across the Twin Towers, he also walk