{"title":"Elementary Students Interpret Mordicai Gerstein's Artwork in The Man Who Walked between the Towers","authors":"Sylvia Pantaleo","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Mordicai Gerstein's Caldecott Medal award-winning picturebook, The Man Who Walked between the Towers, commemorates Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the architectural giants in 1974. Gerstein's picturebook was one of the selections of literature featured during a classroom-based study where Grade 4 students were provided with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal texts.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"16 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0055","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Mordicai Gerstein's Caldecott Medal award-winning picturebook, The Man Who Walked between the Towers, commemorates Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the architectural giants in 1974. Gerstein's picturebook was one of the selections of literature featured during a classroom-based study where Grade 4 students were provided with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal texts.