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Mirette on the High Wire
by Emily Arnold McCully
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About This Item
McCULLY, Emily Arnold. Mirette on the High Wire. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1992]. 4to, [32]pp. Color pictorial boards. Turquoise endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slightest rubbing at base of spine panel, no medal affixed). Signed by the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully.
First edition. 1993 Caldecott Medal Winner! Young Mirette discovers that one of her mother's lodgers is none other than the Great Bellini — one the master wire-walker, but now brought down to earth by a terrible fear. How Mirette and Bellini each teach the other courage and fortitude makes for a moving, unforgettable adventure! 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.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Mirette on the High Wire
- Author
- Emily Arnold McCully
- Illustrator
- Emily Arnold McCully
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Caldecott Medal
- Size
- 4to
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