Mirette On The High Wire - 1st Edition/1st Printing

McCully, Emily Arnold

ISBN 10: 0399221301 / ISBN 13: 9780399221309

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1992

About this Item

A beautiful first edition/first printing in Fine condition in just about Fine, lightly yellowed dust-jacket with the Caldecott Medal. SIGNED and dated by author/illustrator Emily Arnold McCully across the title page, she further added a beautiful drawing of Mirette. Bound in aqua laminated boards, pictorial illustration on front cover, dark blue spine with lettering in pink and white, aqua endpapers; in dust-jacket with illustrations by McCully; Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1993, McCully captures 19th Century Paris with her impressionistic watercolors. Mirette helps the great tightrope artist Bellini overcome fear and regain his confidence and spirit through her friendship, courage and perseverance; Color Illustrations; 4to ; [32] pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator. Seller Inventory # 24899

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mirette On The High Wire - 1st Edition/1st ...

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Laminated Boards

Illustrator: Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

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.

Review:

★"Mirette makes an enviable and plucky heroine; young readers will want to pull on their own high-button boots and join her as she dances between the rooftops." --BCCB, starred review

★"A bravura performance." --Horn Book, starred review

★"A satisfying, high-spirited adventure." --School Library Journal, starred review

"An exotic, suspenseful story." --Kirkus Reviews