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/Lynn-Ward-and-His-Endless-Stories.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/28/2004 Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories Transcript Lynd Ward, an illustrator of both children’s and adult books, was born in 1905 in Chicago. His father was a Methodist minister. As a baby, he was often sick and when he was a year old, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-of-Green-Gables.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/21/2004 Anne of Green Gables Transcript One day, in 1904, the writer Lucy Maud Montgomery was reading through one of her journals from the previous year and came across this note: “Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vikram-Seths-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 6/15/2004 Vikram Seth’s Children’s Books Transcript One of the most well-known authors to emerge from the happy cultural fusion of East and West is the distinguished Indian novelist and poet Vikram Seth, winner of numerous international literary awards. Author of the critically acclaimed The Golden […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Art-of-Maurice-Sendak-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/10/2004 Art of Maurice Sendak Transcript It’s Maurice Sendak’s birthday today, and the award-winning playright Tony Kushner, Sendak’s friend and collaborator (on the recent picture book, Brundibar), has offered a remarkable present for the occasion: The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. This large, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Daugherty.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2004 James Daugherty Transcript James Daugherty was already an accomplished artist when he brought his talents to children’s literature. He had studied Baroque art in Europe, painted camouflage on ships in cubist shapes for the Navy during World War I, designed posters and painted […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Linda-Brown-You-Are-Not-Alone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/17/2004 Linda Brown You Are Not Alone Transcript Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which legally ended segregation in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas, as well as the rest of the United […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Unrooted-Childhoods.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/10/2004 Unrooted Childhoods Transcript In their recent book, Unrooted Childhoods, Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel have collected a series of memoires about what they call “Growing Up Global.” Eidse and Sichel were inspired to gather this collection when they discovered — in trying to find […]
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Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Childs-Guide-to-Freud.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2004 A Child’s Guide to Freud Transcript “If you beat your Daddy at Chinese Checkers…call this Healthy Aggression. If he decides to get mad about this, call him Insecure. If he changes his mind and smiles, call him unstable. If you trip him on […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Money-Cent-Review-of-Books-for-Kids-about-Money.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/22/2004 Money Cent$ Transcript It’s National Teach Your Children to Save Day, and in today’s market, that means moving to a much higher level than the traditional piggy bank. We adults know that we’re not saving enough, or investing as shrewdly as we should, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-Carroll-Moore.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/20/2004 Anne Carroll Moore Transcript During National Library Week I would like to pay homage to Anne Carroll Moore, the librarian largely responsible for something we take for granted today: free access to books in public libraries for children, regardless of age, reading ability, […]