The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Madd Capp Puzzles Crockett Johnson (1906-1975) was the

Crockett Johnson (1906-1975) was the writer and illustrator of over twenty books for children

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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Madd Capp Puzzles Crockett Johnson (1906-1975) was theThe story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings