Authors
Lois Lenski
Today, Rita Smith remembers author/illustrator Lois Lenski.
James Whitcomb Riley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Whitcomb-Riley.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/9/2000 James Whitcomb Riley Transcript Just recently, Indiana celebrated the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley, the famed Jossier writer, who was born in a log cabin in Geenfield, Indiana, on October 7th, 1849, and who became, by the time of his death in 1916, […]
Edward Stratemeyer
Today, Rita Smith remembers Edward Stratemeyer, who made the series book a standard fixture in every child’s library.
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goldings-Lord-of-the-Flies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2000 William Golding Transcript Almost fifty years before “Survivor,” William Golding’s disturbing Lord of the Flies was published in 1954. It was much more reality-based and therefore much scarier than anything the networks might later fabricate for us. The novel was about what could […]
Alicia Nitecki
Today, noted scholar Alicia Nitecki tells us about her favorite book as a child.
Walter Crane
Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane.
Edith Nesbit
Here's Rita Smith with this week's Rediscovery about E. Nesbitt.
Antoine Saint-Exupery
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Exupery.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/31/2000 Antoine Saint-Exupery Transcript It’s the hundredth anniversary this month of the birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the French writer who gave us one of the classic works of children’s literature in The Little Prince, that philosophical story about a star-child’s search for meaning […]
I. B. Singer
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/IB-Singer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/14/2000 I. B. Singer Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author who, perhaps more than any other writer in this century, has kept the vivid idioms of Yiddish alive in this country through his […]
Johanna Spyri
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johanna-Spyri.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/12/2000 Johanna Spyri Transcript Johanna Spyri, (Spee-ree) the author of the children’s classic, Heidi, was born July 12, 1827. Heidi, of course, has been through many editions and adaptations, including several film versions in the one hundred twenty years since it was written. Heidi […]