The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers (2003)
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification
The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers, written & illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein; Roaring Brook Press, 2003
2004 Caldecott Medal
Children's Picturebook Price Guide Value: $70 Fine
Essential identifying point
Copyright page: Must have two complete number lines, as follows
ISBN 0-7613-1791-0 (trade edition)
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
ISBN 0-7613-2868-8 (library binding)
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Book design by Filomena Tuosto
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
A Fun Fact
Page 13: After he was awarded the Caldecott Medal, Petit wrote Gerstein a detailed letter praising the book, with one teeny, tiny, correction, being the size of the cable. In first an early printings the cable was "five-eighths" inch thick; in later printings, “five-eighths” was changed to “seven-eighths” in the following line
"To his end of the stronger line, Philippe tied the cable on which he would walk. It was five-eighths of an inch thick."
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