<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 791.3 / 4 / 092 B 21 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> GV551 . G47 2003 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is a children's picture book written and illustrated by American Mordicai Gerstein . Published in 2003, the book recounts the heart - stopping achievement of Philippe Petit, a French man who, on an August morning in 1974, walked, lay, knelt and danced on a tightrope wire between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, a quarter mile above the ground . Gerstein won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations . The book has been adapted to film and ballet . </P> <P> The Man Who Walked Between The Towers follows the French street performer Philippe Petit in an illustrated children's book made by author Mordicai Gerstein . Philippe Petit had an idea to walk a wire between the twin towers and acted upon it with much planning and setting up . He had once walked a wire on the Notre Dame where he lived in Paris, France . Early on an August morning, since the towers were not quite finished, Philippe Petit and his friend dressed up as a construction worker and went up the south tower . They got a 440 lbs of cable into the elevator . Took it to the top 10 floors and waited until nightfall . Then they carried everything up 180 stairs into the roof . At midnight, two more friends came to help and tied a line through an arrow and shot it across to Philippe 140 feet away . It missed and landed on a ledge who crawled down the ledge of the tower to get the arrow . To the line he attached a stronger line, whom his friends pulled back and he tied it to a cable that was 5 / 8 of an inch thick . The cable was so heavy that it took them 3 hours to secure the line from across the two towers . By past dawn of August 7, 1974, they had tightened it between the towers . Philippe then put on his black shirt and tights and picked up his 28 - foot balancing pole and started walking on the wire . He felt, "Alone and absolutely free", as author Mordecai Gerstein writes . The bystanders notice someone walking between the two towers and quickly notify the police . Officers rushed to the roof of the towers and yelled to Philippe, "You're under arrest!" For almost an hour Philippe walked, danced, and leaped back and forth between the wire . He even laid down to rest . When he felt completely satisfied, he walked towards the tower and held out his wrists towards the handcuffs . They brought Philippe to court and the judge sentenced him to perform in the park for the children of the city . This he did happily . Though during his performance some kids jerked his wire and Philippe fell but caught himself . Now the towers are gone but the memory remains of August 7, 1974 when a man walked between the towers . </P>

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