Mirette on the High Wire | 
“Once you have fear on the wire, it never leaves.”
This is a fun story that can be used to teach children to face their fears. Students can see how they can support and inspire one another.
This is a fun story that can be used to teach children to face their fears. Students can see how they can support and inspire one another.
pickI really liked this book, it is interesting and exciting. I enjoyed reading it and was curious to see how the story would go. It provides an experience into life in paris and dealing with fear.
beginning “ the rooftops are gray. The whole city is gray.”
What I liked “ and rooftops, grow lighter, and lighter. The rooftops are white.”
pickThis book was very relatable in giving up on something you once liked because you failed. This book would teach students to keep doing the things you love and learn to keep working at it even if you are scared
“Once you have fear on the wire, it never leaves” Bellini said
I always had this feeling when I was in tumbling throughout my life.
“Of all the things a person could do, this must be the most magical”
Very colorful images. It inspires children to take risks and reach their dreams.
pickMirette On The High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully, 1993. Caldecott Award Winning Book. This book has very colorful and vibrant images. It takes the reader back 100 years into the past. The story is about a little girl who wants to learn to walk a tightrope. She has a curious and adventurous spirit.
“When Bellini was gone, she jumped up on the wire to try for herself.“
I think my students in class would really enjoy reading this book to see the emotion behind Mirette's personality and learning how to overcome the High Wire!
pick“Mirette on the High Wire“ Emily Arnold McCully - 1993 Caldecott
This book had some higher vocabulary! While you are reading the book you can easily paint the picture in your head the way the author describes the scene. You can feel the characters emotions through the pages!!!
pickCaldecott Winner, Mirette on the High Wire is a great RF, S book for your primary students! Mirette has lived most of her life at a boarding house with her mom. One day a famous tight rope walker comes by to preform for the people at the boarding house. Mirette, who immediately falls in love with the sport, asks the Great Billini to teach her. He agrees and begins to teach her. Through their time together, Mirette helps him overcome his fears
my favorite part was the very end when Bellini got nervous so she went out on the high wire and they succeeded together
pickI enjoyed this book. it was cute and had a good message of following your dreams
pickMirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully is a Caldecott award winning HF book. This would be a great RA book about how Mirette meets a famous High Wire Walker makes Bellini in her mother‘s boardinghouse.
pickMirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully is a Caldecott award winning book. This is a great realistic fiction picture book that could be used as a RA in a classroom. It‘s about a young girl who is intrigued by a man who was once a master wire- walker but little does she know he holds a deep fear that she will help him to overcome.
Review: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully, 1992. Caldecott Medal Winner Book. This is a great book that has a feel good plot line of defeat and success.
Blurb: The illustrations in this book add to the beauty and wonderfulness of it.
Quote: “In the beginning everyone falls. Most give up. But you kept trying. Perhaps you have talent as well.”
“'...Return of the great Bellini!' He was yelling. Could it be? Mirette's heart hammered in her chest.“
pickWinner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal. Gave a good plot line and showed us good characters that bounced off great ideas and inspiration to one another. It gave a good theme that teaches kid not to give up when things might get rough and to also always push yourself to get better.
Enjoyed the bond Mirette and Mr. Ballini created. He taught her an unique skill and she taught him to believe in himself and to never be scared.
Mirrette on the High Wire is a RF Caldecott winning PB written and Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. This is one of the books I read 100x as a child. It‘s a captivating book about an apprentice tight right rope walker named Mirrette. This book is great for PR. You can use this text to enhance fluency and compression skills. Linked below is a teacher resource. I would use ESL strategy #17 and UDL 6.1 for this book.
“Bellini‘s fear was like a cloud casting its black shadow on all she had learned from him.”
This book shows enthusiasm and faith that can rescue anyone from their fear.
pickMirette on the high wire by Emily Arnold McCully is a Caldecott winning book that was published in 1997. This book is about a girl name Mirette who was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people. Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. Mirette finds out that fear has kept Bellini from performing for years. She shows him that sometimes a student can be the greatest teacher of all.
pick#MusicalNewYear Day 16: The setting of the picture book was 120 years ago during the height of the artiste-culturati scene in Paris - very #LaVieBoheme. Mirette was at the very heart of it all as acrobats, mimes, artists, jugglers gather from all over the globe and congregate in her mother‘s, Madame Gateau‘s, boardinghouse on English Street, believed to be the best place to stay at the time. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-3BD
pickMirette on the High Wire, written and illustrated by, Emily Arnold McaCully, is a super fun HF Caldecott winning book. This book would be excellent for a RA. The kids will love to be read aloud this exciting book about Mirrette and how she meets a famous High Wire walker named Bellini! I love this book because it shows to never give up and to go for what you love!
pickMirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully is a Caldecott award book and will make a great addition to any classroom library for IR. This HF book is about a young girl named Mirette, who meets a famous retired high wire walker, Bellini. Mirette then learns how to high wire walk with the help of Bellini. One EL strategy that can be used is 2, encourage self-talk (positive thinking). UDL strategy 6.1, guide appropriate goal-setting.
pickMirette on the High Wire is an excellent historical fiction choice for RA that won the distinguished Caldecott Medal in 1993. The story is about a young girl living in Paris who teaches herself how to tight rope walk and becomes the pupil of a very famous rope performer, Bellini. It's a sweet inspirational text that teaches the moral lesson of never giving up and finding a role model to look up to. #ucflae3414f17
