Over the centuries, many writers have turned their attentions to writing for children. Most found this was not as easy as it might seem at first to be. Many of their works have sunk into obscurity, but the ones who succeeded created masterpieces that stay with us throughout our lives.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tomi-Ungerer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/29/2002 Tomi Ungerer Transcript One of the best-loved picture books by the internationally celebrated author and illustrator, Tomi Ungerer, is The Three Robbers. The Robbers, disguised in their capes and tall, black hats, plunder the coaches that bounce through the European landscape of the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Karen-Hesse-Out-of-the-Dust.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/19/2002 Karen Hesse Transcript Karen Hesse has just won one of the MacArthur “genius” awards for her books for children and young adults. There is a great deal to celebrate in this announcement — a truly gifted writer has received her due, and that’s […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-Rachel-Field.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/19/2002 Rediscovering Rachel Field Transcript Rachel Field was 10 years old before she learned to read. Born on September 19, 1894, in New York City, she spent the first 10 years of her life in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she attended a one-room school kept […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Emily-Bronte-A-Writers-Beginnings.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 7/30/2002 Emily Bronte Transcript Emily Brontë wrote just one novel in her relatively short life, Wuthering Heights. But what a novel it was, and it’s impassioned, romantic reach has extended far beyond the bleak Yorkshire moors where that dark story […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Farley-Mowat.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/13/2002 Farley Mowat Transcript It is challenging to put into words exactly what makes reading Farley Mowat such a personal experience. If you read his tales of the far north – both fiction and nonfiction – you will likely come away feeling as though […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mitsumasa-Anno.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/19/2002 Mitsumasa Anno Transcript Tomorrow is the birthday of one of the most innovative creators of picture books for young people, the Japanese artist, Mitsumasa Anno. Born in 1926, in the small town of Tsuwana, Japan, he was trained as a teacher, and he […]
Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve to take us under the sea and up in the air to celebrate the birthday of Jules Verne.
It was James Joyce’s birthday this weekend, and Kevin Shortsleeve has something to say about this famous Irish author and his gift for nonsense.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-AA-Milne.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2002 A. A. Milne’s Birthday Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. […]
