Mirette on the High Wire
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 Front cover showing the Caldecott Medal, designed by Emily A. McCully | |
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Emily Arnold McCully |
| Cover artist | McCully |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Publisher | Putnam Books |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0-399-22130-9 |
| OCLC | 24544979 |
| [E] 20 | |
| LC Class | PZ7.M478415 Mi 1992 |
Mirette on the High Wire is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Published in 1992, the book tells the story of Mirette, a French girl who learns to walk on the tightrope. McCully won the 1993 Caldecott Medal for her illustrations.[1]
Plot summary
[edit]Mirette lives in a boarding house in France. One day her life is changed by a man named Bellini, a famous tightrope walker, who teaches Mirette how to walk on a tightrope.
Musical
[edit]Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, best known for their long-running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks, created a musical version of the book in 1996.[2][3]
In film
[edit]A 1993 animated cartoon short narrated by the author was released by Scholastic Inc., and Weston Woods.
References
[edit]- ^ American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present Archived 2011-10-18 at the Wayback Machine. URL accessed 27 May 2009.
- ^ Klein, Alvin (August 9, 1998). "THEATER; 'Mirette' at Goodspeed Opera House". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^ Kenrick, John (December 2005). "Mirette. The York Theatre Company, NYC". musicals101.com. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
