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/Lucretia-Hale.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/9/2001 Lucretia Hale Peterkin Papers Transcript Lucretia Hale’s claim to fame in the world of children’s literature is her stories of the Peterkin family, originally told to entertain a sick child. Later they were repeated to other children and were greeted with laughter and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Camp-Sleepovers.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 7/5/2001 Books for Camp, Summer Games and Sleep Overs Transcript Part of the fun of summer for kids used to be learning and enjoying a whole bunch of things that you never did during the regular school year. Like making smores or spider dogs […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Charles-Kingsley-and-his-Water-Babies.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/21/2001 Charles Kingsley Transcript Charles Kingsley’s reputation in the world of children’s literature rests almost solely on his novel Water Babies, which, along with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, is generally regarded as heralding the Golden Age of children’s literature. The Water Babies is […]
Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/5/2001 Wonderland on the Auction Block Transcript Tomorrow, Sotheby’s in London will be auctioning off nothing less than …. Wonderland itself — a unique copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (the title of the story before it became Alice in Wonderland), inscribed by its author, Lewis […]
That’s Homer Price’s Aunt Aggie, complaining about newfangled inventions like the doughnut machine that his Uncle Ulysses is tinkering with in the couple’s new little coffee shop on the village square in Centerberg, USA.
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/29/2001 Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Transcript Most people recognize the name Ian Fleming as the author of the original fourteen James Bond novels. But Fleming is also remembered for another work, the well-known children s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1921, when Fleming was twelve years old, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Manners-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2001 Some New Books About Manners Transcript Out of polite respect for National Etiquette Week, we thought wed let you know about some new books dealing with proper conduct for young people. In Harriet Ziefert’s recent picture book, Someday Well Have Very Good Manners, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mothers-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/11/2001 Mother’s Day Transcript It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. The holiday began in 1907 in Philadelphia, as a way to remember a mother who had passed away, and it had become, by Presidential decree in 1914, an occasion to honor all mothers. Three recent […]
Author John Cech Air Date 4/23/2001 Astronomy Week Transcript Have you seen what’s been going on in the sky lately? Well, it’s actually been happening for probably tens of millions of years, but we’ve only been able to see it for the past few centuries, and, really, since 1990 when the Hubble Space Telescope was […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Edition-Alice.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/17/2001 A Tenniel Illustration First Edition Alice Transcript “Curiouser and curiouser!” This is the comment of Alice in Wonderland after she eats the cake and feels herself beginning to “open out like the largest telescope that ever was.” Curious would also be a good […]