Youth Art Internet Style
Here’s Koren Stembridge with information about Internet resources for Youth Art Month.
St. Nicholas in March
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Years-Ago-in-ST-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/29/2000 St. Nicholas in March Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas, the premier magazine for boys and girls, began publication November 1873 and was issued monthly until March 1940. Each issue, awaited anxiously by thousands of American children, carried a variety […]
Freddie Bartholomew, Child Star
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Freddie-Bartholomew.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/28/2000 Freddie Bartholomew Transcript One of the great child stars of the 1930s, Freddie Bartholomew, was born today in London in 1924. He had a glowing presence, cherubic good looks and a natural gift for acting–something his Aunt Cissie noticed right away. She became […]
Edward Steichen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Steichen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2000 Edward Steichen Transcript Edward Steichen, one of America’s most noted photographers, was born today in 1879 in Luxembourg, where he spent the first two years of his life before his family resettled in Michigan and his father went to work in the copper […]
Oz on the Internet
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oz-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/23/2000 Oz on the Internet Transcript What you might not know is that it all started, 100 years ago, with a book. Penned by author Frank Baum, and published in 1900–The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was to become one of the best selling children’s […]
Randolph Caldecott
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/22/2000 Randolph Caldecott Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. Why is Randolph Caldecott, the Lord of the English nursery and the father of the modern picture book, buried in a quiet cemetery in the heart of St. Augustine, Florida? The answer to that […]
Things Irish
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Things-Irish.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/17/2000 Things Irish Transcript It started out as a reference question for eight-year-old Patrick, who is one of my favorite library patrons. He was working on his very first school research project–well he is, after all, in 3rd grade! Patrick’s question, to be precise, […]