Authors
Walter de la Mare
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/25/2001 Walter de la Mare Transcript Walter De la Mare was born in England in 1873. He was raised in a Victorian landscape of childhood that presented a dichotomy of poetic views. On the one side, there were the irreverent and humorous authors like Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, while […]
Hans Christian Andersen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Christian-Anderson-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/2/2001 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript It’s Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday today. He was born in the little Danish town of Odense, in 1805, the son of a washerwoman and a cobbler, the poorest of the poor in the town, though Andersen’s mother claimed that […]
Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecotts-Rollicking-Picture-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/26/2001 Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books Transcript Many people are familiar with Randolph Caldecott’s name because the Caldecott Medal, given annually to the most distinguished American picture book, is named for him, but the 16 picture books he illustrated are worth getting to know, too. […]
Howard Pyle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Howard-Pyle.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/7/2001 Howard Pyle Transcript Way back in 1877, American children going through their latest issues of St. Nicholas Magazine discovered some little fables with illustrations quite different from those to which they were accustomed. These simple drawings had a strong, heavy line, and a […]
Mildred Taylor
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]
The Afterlife of Edward Gorey
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Gorey-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/23/2001 The Afterlife of Edward Gorey Transcript Edward Gorey confessed that he was afraid of being remembered only as a morbid Charles Adams type. In life, Gorey was much more than that – a voracious reader who could speak with authority on any number […]
Edgar Allen Poe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Allen-Poe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/31/2001 Edgar Allen Poe Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Edgar Allen Poe, and you’ve been hearing Ted Jacobs’ fine musical interpretation of one of Poe’s poems, “Alone,” from a CD called “The Days Gone By — Songs of the American Poets.” This […]
Nelly Bly
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nelly-Bly.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello (read by Rita Smith) Air Date 1/25/2001 Nelly Bly Transcript On this day in 1889 Nellie Bly, a twenty-five year old reporter for The New York World received a hero’s welcome in Jersey City. A crowd of over 300 gathered to greet her, cannons boomed, and […]
Hugh Lofting
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hugh-Lofting.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/12/2001 Hugh Lofting Transcript This weekend is the late Hugh Lofting’s birthday. Lofting, who was born in Maidenhead England in 1886, holds a special place in the annals of children’s literature. He is author of the wildly popular Doctor Doolittle book series. Although Lofting […]
J. R. R. Tolkien
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/JRR-Tolkien.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/3/2001 J. R. R. Tolkien Transcript A recent poll of 25,000 avid readers in the United Kingdom voted The Lord of the Rings the Number One Book of the Century. Yet, it may surprise you to learn how narrowly this trilogy was saved from […]