Literature
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 […]
35 Years of Fudge
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thirty-Five-Years-of-Fudge.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 8/16/2007 35 Years of Fudge Transcript In 1972, Farley Drexel Hatcher, more commonly known as Fudge, burst onto the pages of Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and nothing has been able to contain him since, much to the chagrin of his older […]
Kipling Encore
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kipling-Encore.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 8/15/2007 Kipling Encore Transcript Rudyard Kipling is much more than the author of the Jungle Book, which, no children, did NOT begin life as a cartoon. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that because his work has been downplayed for many years, not because it’s not […]
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 […]
Helene Hanff’s Children’s Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Helene-Hanffs-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 8/8/2007 Helene Hanff’s Children’s Books Transcript In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die — and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for […]
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 […]
Emily and the Genii
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Emily-and-the-Genii.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 7/31/2007 Emily and the Genii Transcript Emily Bronté wrote just one novel in her relatively short life, Wuthering Heights. But what a novel it was, and its impassioned, romantic reach has extended far beyond the bleak Yorkshire moors where that dark […]