Mirette on the High Wire

Mirette on the High Wire
	Front cover showing the Caldecott Medal, designed by Emily A. McCully
Author	Emily Arnold McCully
Illustrator	Emily Arnold McCully
Cover artist	McCully
Genre	Children's picture book
Publisher	Putnam Books
Publication date	1992
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0-399-22130-9
OCLC	24544979
Dewey Decimal	[E] 20
LC Class	PZ7.M478415 Mi 1992

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.^[1]

Plot summary

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.

Musical

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.^[2]^[3]

In film

A 1993 animated cartoon short narrated by the author was released by Scholastic Inc., and Weston Woods.

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Awards
Preceded by Tuesday	Caldecott Medal recipient 1993	Succeeded by Grandfather's Journey

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