The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

By Mordicai Gerstein

This book won the Caldecott medal award, this book is about man, Philippe, who was an extraordinary talent performer. He would ride an unicycle, juggle balls and fiery torches and also walk on a rope he tied between two trees. He always challenged everything whenever he saw opportunities. He was born and raised in France and he desired to accomplish his dream by walking across from the South Tower to the North Tower in the NYC. This book explained Philippe's experience and journey including accomplishing his biggest dream and how he did it.

After reviewing and reading Mordicai's, it mentioned about respecting others, according to the six elements; Philippe suffered a claustrophobia moment when he was doing a ropewalking in his locals and there were young boys that pulled trick off on him. He got scared and fell off the rope, but that didn't stop him from doing more ropewalking. He knew that he could still do it as long as people still respect him no matter whatsoever. He across from the South Tower to North Tower, because he knew that people would still show their respect for him after what young locals have done to him with pulling that stunt.