Mirette on the High Wire
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1992]
Format: Book
Description: 30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it.
But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.
Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.
Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
ISBN:
0399221301
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Picture Book | Out (Due: 5/6/2024) |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Picture Book | Out (Due: 4/27/2024) |
P McCully | Ballentine Indoors | Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Blythewood | Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Picture Book | In |
P McCully | North Main | Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Sandhills Indoors | Picture Book | Held |
P McCully | Southeast | Picture Book | In |
P McCully | Southeast | Picture Book | In |
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 1993.