Interviews
Barbaro
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbaro-Americas-Horse.mp3 Author John Cech with Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/4/2007 Barbaro Transcript The Kentucky Derby will be run tomorrow, and that has many of us thinking of last year’s winner, Barbaro. This incredible thoroughbred is the subject of Barbaro: America’s Horse, a new book for young people that’s just been […]
Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Selznick-and-Hugo-Cabret.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/24/2007 Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab caught up with the artist Brian Selznick and talked with him about his latest picture book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This innovative work has been the talk of the children’s book […]
Katherine Patterson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Katherine-Patterson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/12/2007 Katherine Patterson Transcript Katherine Paterson is one of the most celebrated of writers for children, having received numerous awards for her books and for her life’s work. The film adaptation of her novel, Bridge to Terebithia, is now in theaters across the country. Earlier […]
Robie Harris
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Robie-Harris.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/30/2007 Robie Harris Transcript Recently, Susan Raab asked Robie Harris, the noted author for young people, about the many books she has written for children about their emotional lives and the questions they ask about the facts of their physical beings. She talked about […]
Jeffrey Garrett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Jeffrey-Garrett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/16/2007 Jeffrey Garrett Transcript At the annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair held every year in Italy, Susan Raab spoke with Jeffrey Garrett, the president of the jury that presents the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen awards every two years to a globally significant writer and […]
Jane Addam’s Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Addams-and-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/8/2006 Jane Addam’s Children Transcript It’s the 75th anniversary this coming Sunday, December 10th, of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 to Jane Addams, who was one of America’s most innovative social thinkers and one of its most active, progressive leaders. […]
Nikki Grimes
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Nikki-Grimes.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/16/2006 Nikki Grimes Transcript Susan Raab recently spoke with the award-winning writer, Nikki Grimes, about her new book of poetry for children about grief. The poems take the reader inside this experience from various points of view. The book is called What is Goodbye? The […]
Tomie DePaola
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Tomie-DePaola.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/8/2006 Tomie DePaola Transcript Susan Raab had a wide-ranging conversation earlier this year with the well-known artist and author, Tomie DePaola, about the autobiographical nature of some of his books, the creative process, the pressures that children are under today, the highly recognizable nature […]
Peter Sis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Peter-Sis.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/2/2006 Peter Sis Transcript Recently, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the McArthur Genius Award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, Peter Sis, who is familiar to many readers for his books about Galileo, Darwin, and the amazing trip Sis’s father took to Tibet in the […]
Meet Jan Brett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Jan-Brett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/26/2006 Jan Brett Transcript At this past summer’s American Library Association convention, Recess correspondent Susan Raab asked the award-winning, best-selling author/illustator Jan Brett about the kinds of roles that children’s books play, in the lives of both young and grown-up people — even if the book […]