Someone once said that a good writer, whether for children or adults, has one story, which s/he keeps telling in various disguised ways; the fantastic writer has two stories; and the genius has three. Shakespeare, for example, could write tragedies, comedies, and histories with equal brilliance. In the world of children’s books, you can count the geniuses on one hand. In the pieces in this section, we write about them all – the good writers, the terrific writers, and, yes, those geniuses.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/T-S-Eliot-That-Ol-Possum.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/23/2004 T. S. Eliot Transcript T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the 20th Century.” He was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and his poem, The Waste Land, is widely considered the most […]
By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Labor-Day-Children-at-Work.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/6/2004 Labor Day: Children at Work Transcript Today is Labor Day, a holiday that is meant to celebrate the hard-working women and men who have built our own and every other country. Left out of this commemoration, though, are the many children who were […]
That’s Neil Patrick Harris (remember Doogie Hauser, M.D.?) reading the opening of Elmore Leonard’s first book for children, A Coyote’s in the House.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faster-Higher-Stronger-Books-About-the-Olympics.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/6/2004 The Youngest Olympians Transcript With the Olympics beginning next week, there is sure to be a peak of curiosity about the games, especially among the young athletes in your household. One of the impressive new visual guides to the modern Olympics may help […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Best-Books-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/2/2004 100 Best Books for Children Transcript The summer is getting along, and the children around you have probably played those favorite videos and video games at least a million times. And if they’re played out and swum out and malled out, then it […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Space-and-Stars-A-Shimmering-New-Group-of-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/28/2004 Space and Stars Transcript Stars! Stars! Stars! — not the Hollywood variety, but the real deal — those ever fascinating points of light shimmering above us in the night sky. Stars! Stars! Stars! is also the title of a new picture book for young children […]
That’s Roger Miller, playing the Dukes-of-Hazard-style minstrel Allan a Dale, with one of the songs from the 1973 cartoon version of Robin Hood.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EB-White-No-Bunk.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/12/2004 E.B. White Transcript In the opening minutes of the film version of E. B. White’s first children’s book — Stuart Little ( the prequel to film, Stuart Little 2, that’s in theaters next next week) Mr. and Mrs. Little go to an orphanage and end […]
