Authors
Alison Uttley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Rediscovery-Allison-Uttley.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/9/2004 Alison Uttley Transcript Alison Uttley, a well known British children’s writer, was born in 1884 on a farm in rural England. As a child she was an avid reader and wrote poetry. She also developed a love of science, attended Manchester University, and […]
Augusta Baker
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Agusta-Baker-Storyteller-Supreme.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/23/2004 Augusta Baker Transcript Augusta Baker was an exceptional librarian who made many contributions to the improvement of children’s services during a stellar career that spanned five decades. She began working in 1937 as assistant children’s librarian at the 135th Street Branch of the […]
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lucy-Maud-Montgomery.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/28/2003 Lucy Maud Montgomery Transcript If Lucy Maud Montgomery had stopped writing after her first novel was published, she would still be known and loved the world over as the creator of Anne of Green Gables, that good, honest, loyal, orphan blessed with an impulsive […]
Enid Blyton
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Enid-Blyton.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 11/18/2003 Enid Blyton Transcript This month marks the anniversary of the creation of Noddy, the doll with a wobbly head who captured the hearts of children in many parts of the world over half a century ago. In November 1949 he appeared in Little Noddy […]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Francis Hopkinson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Revolutionary-Verses.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/8/2003 Francis Hopkinson Transcript In your studies of the American Revolution, it is unlikely that you spent much time on Francis Hopkinson. Hopkinson was the author of satirical and nonsensical essays that simultaneously delighted his allies and infuriated his enemies. A signer of the […]
Terry Pratchett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Terry-Pratchett.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 4/28/2003 Terry Pratchett Transcript Terry Pratchett has written a wide range of science fiction and fantasy books (over 37 so far), but most of his tales take place in Discworld, an extraordinary alternate world where heroes and villians vie for power, and Death himself […]
Martha Finley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Martha-Finley-Rediscovered.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/15/2003 Martha Finley Transcript Although Martha Finley was practically a pariah among historians and critics of children’s literature and was ignored by reviewers, she was wildly popular with her young readers. The book she wrote and published in 1867, Elsie Dinsmore, outsold every other […]
Geoffrey Canada
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Geoffrey-Canada.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Harun Thomas) Air Date 3/20/2003 Geoffrey Canada Transcript Geoffrey Canada begins his recent book — Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America — with his getting the news about the deaths of a number of his childhood friends. These were now grown […]
Edgar Allen Poe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Allen-Poe-2.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/21/2003 Edgar Allen Poe Transcript Edgar Allen Poe–as master of the macabre–is not usually considered an author who connects deeply with the concerns of childhood. Poe produced a canon in which death, decay and madness were central themes. Stories like “The Cask of Amontillado” […]