Full Product Details
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Imprint: Square Fish
Dimensions:
Width: 20.40cm
, Height: 0.30cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.151kg
ISBN: 9780312368784
ISBN 10: 031236878
Pages: 44
Publication Date: 17 April 2007
Recommended Age: From 5 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: English
Reviews
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.
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'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)
Author Information
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.
