Mirette on the High Wire

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/21/1992
ISBN: 9780399221309
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 11.32h x 8.22w x 0.38d
Award: Caldecott Medal - Winner

Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/1992 pg. 609
Booklist 03/15/1993 pg. 1326
School Library Journal 10/01/1992 pg. 92
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1992 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
Publishers Weekly 10/26/1992

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 6335 / Mirette on the High Wire
Reading Level: 3.6 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5