Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children's books from the library: "I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures."
He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
"Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to
take any reader's breath away. Truly affecting." --Publishers
Weekly (Starred Review)
"Readers of all ages will return to this again and again for its
history, adventure, humor, and breathtaking homage to extraordinary
buildings and a remarkable man." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"With its graceful majesty and mythic overtones, this unique and
uplifting book is at once a portrait of a larger-than-life
individual and a memorial to the towers and the lives associated
with them." --School Library Journal (Starred Review)
Gerstein illustrates the captivating story of Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. Winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal. (SLJ 11/03) (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
"Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound
to take any reader's breath away. Truly affecting." --Publishers
Weekly (Starred Review)
"Readers of all ages will return to
this again and again for its history, adventure, humor, and
breathtaking homage to extraordinary buildings and a remarkable
man." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "With its graceful
majesty and mythic overtones, this unique and uplifting book is at
once a portrait of a larger-than-life individual and a memorial to
the towers and the lives associated with them." --School Library
Journal (Starred Review)
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