Interviews
E. L. Konigsburg
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EL-Konigsburg.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/30/2007 E. L. Konigsburg Transcript At the recent Book Expo, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the distinguished author of works for young people, E. L. Konigsburg about her new novel, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, and about one of the central themes that animates […]
Patsy Aldana
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patsy-Aldana.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/28/2007 Patsy Aldana Transcript At the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair this past spring, Susan Raab spoke with Patsy Aldana from Canada, the current president of the International Board of Books for Young People, or IBBY, about IBBY’s current initiatives for bringing books to […]
Margaret Quinlan
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Margaret-Quinlan.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/21/2007 Margaret Quinlan Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab spoke with Margaret Quinlan, the President of Peachtree Press in Atlanta about a number of their books, both fiction and non-fiction, that look at how children can understand and sometimes affect their worlds, both natural […]
Heidi Cortner Boiesen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Heidi-Cortner-Boiesen.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/14/2007 Heidi Cortner Boiesen Transcript Recently, Susan Raab spoke with Heidi Cortner Boiesen, the Director for the International Board of Books for Young People’s Documentation Center of Books for Disabled Young People in Oslo, Norway, about some of the recent titles that are attracting […]
Nancy Yi Fan and Swordbird
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nancy-Yi-Fan-and-Swordbird.mp3 Author Linda Lamme Air Date 8/9/2007 Nancy Fan and Swordbird Transcript One of the more amazing stories to come out of our town, Gainesville, Florida, this past year is the publication of the first novel in a series by thirteen year old writer, Nancy Yi Fan (“FON”). The book […]
Judy Galbraith
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Judy-Galbraith.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/7/2007 Judy Galbraith Transcript At the annual Bologna International Children’s Book Festival this past spring, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab talked to Judy Galbraith, the president and founder of Free Spirit Books. Here’s Judy Galbraith describing the press and one of their recent books about children and […]
The Art of Comics: Hart and Corman
At the annual comics conference at the University of Florida held earlier this spring, Stephanie Boluk spoke with two of the guest artists.
Stephanie Bange
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Stephanie-Bange.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/22/2007 Stephanie Bange Transcript At the American Library Association’s most recent conference, our correspondent Susan Raab spoke with Stephanie Bange, who is chairing the ALA’s new initiative, “Kids @ Libraries.” We join their conversation with Susan’s question about one of the ways that library […]
Dylan Horrocks Comics
At our annual conference on comics at the University of Florida, Recess cartoonist Stephanie Boluk spoke with the artist Dylan Horrocks.
Meet Candice Ransom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Candace-Ransom.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/15/2007 Meet Candice Ransom Transcript Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke recently with the author, Candice Ransom, who has written over a hundred books for young people — from picture books to her own original series of time travel books called The Time Spies, published by Wizards […]