Mirette on the High Wire
Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox book 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.<ref name=ALA>American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present Template:Webarchive. URL accessed 27 May 2009.</ref>
Plot summaryEdit
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.
MusicalEdit
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In filmEdit
A 1993 animated cartoon short narrated by the author was released by Scholastic Inc., and Weston Woods.
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