Interviews
Mingzhou Zhang and The Seed of the Willow
This past year, Susan Raab visited the fair and spoke with a number of children’s book people from around the world, among them Mingzhou Zhang, who is organizing a major international conference about children’s books in Beijing in 2006.
Conversations with Children About Race
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Conversation-with-Children-About-Race.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/4/2004 Conversations with Children About Race Transcript Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? We wanted to continue the conversation today with […]
On Jules Verne
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jules-Verne-An-Interview-with-Jean-Michel-Margot.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/4/2004 On Jules Verne Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the French writer, Jules Verne, who was born in 1828 and who wrote dozens and dozens of novels during the course of his life. He is viewed as one of the inventors of […]
Walter Wick’s Magical Puzzles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walker-Wicks-Magical-Puzzles.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/24/2003 Walter Wick’s Magical Puzzles Transcript It’s National Game and Puzzle week, and we spoke recently with Walter Wick, the artist whose photographs, along with author Jean Marzallo’s riddles, have been challenging viewers, young and old alike, through their I Spy books. Wick’s latest book, Dream Machine, […]
Becoming a Paleontologist
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]
Shelley Jackson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Shelley-Jackson.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 7/31/2003 Shelley Jackson Transcript Shelley Jackson is a well-known author of hypertext and other new-wave digital fiction for adults, but Recess’s Laurie Taylor spoke with her recently about her work as a children’s book author — of two intriguing picture books that have already […]
Interview with R. A. Salvatore
Laurie Taylor interviews fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.
A Moment that Mattered with Elain Pagels
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Elaine-Pagels-on-New-Old-Stories.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/4/2003 A Moment that Mattered with Elain Pagels Transcript Today we are speaking with the noted biblical scholar, Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. I asked Professor Pagels about the abiding importance of stories, for both adults and […]
The Egg Game
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Egg-Game.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 2/11/2003 The Egg Game Transcript We had a visit a few weeks ago from the Egg Man — no, not a poultryman or the character from the Beetles’ song, “I Am the Walrus,” but Erich Jonas, who’s invented something that he calls the Egg […]
Interview with Barbara Woodhouse
This past spring, the United Nations sponsored an international children's summit that was meant to address a number of the global problems that children are facing today. We spoke recently with Barbara Woodhouse about the summit.