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Horatio Alger

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Horatio-Alger.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/13/2000 Horatio Alger Transcript Today is the birthday of Horatio Alger, a prolific nineteenth century writer of novels for boys which became known as the “rags to riches” stories. Alger had been writing and publishing boy’s stories in magazines for ten years when, in […]

Jacob Grimm

Today is the birthday of Jacob Grimm, and Rita Smith is here today to discuss the life and influence of the Brother Grimm.

Francis Burnett

Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, with a Lost and Found essay about Francis Burnett.

Phillip Pullman

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Philip-Pullman-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/18/1999 Phillip Pullman Transcript If your household is looking for some books that will take you to the next level after Harry Potter, let me say just two words: Phillip Pullman. Well, maybe I’d better use more than two. Phillip Pullman, like J. K. […]

Robert Louis Stevenson

Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson's poetry for children.

Alice Childress

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Alice-Childress.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 10/12/1999 Alice Childress Transcript Alice Childress was a woman of firsts. Born on October 12th in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920 and raised in New York City, in 1952 she went on to write the first play by an African American woman to be […]

Parson Weems

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Parson-Weems.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/1999 Parson Weems Transcript Mason Locke Weems was born today in 1759. He was an ordained Anglican minister — hence the name he’s most frequently known by, “Parson Weems.” But he soon abandoned that calling for something more lucrative. He sold books, from village […]

E. B. White

That's E.B. White reading the startling opening sentences from his 1952 classic, Charlotte's Web. This is one of the most remarkable beginnings in all of children's literature, and it reminds us that this book is about some pretty harsh realities.