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Mirette on the High Wire Hardcover - 1992
by Emily Arnold McCully
Mirette lives in a boarding house surrounded by actors, dancers, jugglers and mimes. Her life is filled with exciting stories and fascinating people. None as magical as the stranger Mirette discovers crossing the courtyard on air--a tightrope walker. Mirette becomes the stranger's pupil and learns to walk the wire. Features brilliant watercolor and gouache paintings, reminiscent of the French Impressionists. 1993 Caldecott Medal winner.
Summary
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.
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One hundred years ago in Paris, when theaters and music halls drew travel-players from all over the world, the best place to stay was at the widow Gateau's a boardinghouse on English Street.
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- Title Mirette on the High Wire
- Author Emily Arnold McCully
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date October 21, 1992
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780399221309 / 0399221301
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 11.32 x 8.22 x 0.38 in (28.75 x 20.88 x 0.97 cm)
- Ages 04 to 08 years
- Grade levels P - 3
- Reading level 660
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Themes
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Tightrope walking
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91036324
- Dewey Decimal Code E
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/1992, Page 609
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1992, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 10/26/1992, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 10/01/1992, Page 92
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