It took all night to complete the rigging, securing the steel cable a quarter of a mile in the sky across the 130-foot gap separating the towers.

No, I’m still not back. But a random afternoon link-walk took me to the Gothamist, where I found this squib about the winner of the Caldecott Award: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, written and drawn by Mordecai Gerstein. It’s the story of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the not-quite-completed towers of the World Trade Center. The book looks beautiful; the story here on PBS’s American Experience will put an indescribable chill down your spine, part wonder, part joy, part thrilling fear, part ineluctable grief. (One can’t help but turn the image upside-down.) —Be sure to click through to the sample illustrations from the book, where you’ll see “He Lay Down to Rest.”