Maya Angelou
It’s Maya Angelou’s birthday today, and Jim Haskins has some thoughts about her life and work to celebrate the occasion.
St. Nicholas in March
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Years-Ago-in-ST-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/29/2000 St. Nicholas in March Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas, the premier magazine for boys and girls, began publication November 1873 and was issued monthly until March 1940. Each issue, awaited anxiously by thousands of American children, carried a variety […]
Edward Steichen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Steichen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2000 Edward Steichen Transcript Edward Steichen, one of America’s most noted photographers, was born today in 1879 in Luxembourg, where he spent the first two years of his life before his family resettled in Michigan and his father went to work in the copper […]
Oz on the Internet
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oz-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 3/23/2000 Oz on the Internet Transcript What you might not know is that it all started, 100 years ago, with a book. Penned by author Frank Baum, and published in 1900–The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was to become one of the best selling children’s […]
Randolph Caldecott
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/22/2000 Randolph Caldecott Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. Why is Randolph Caldecott, the Lord of the English nursery and the father of the modern picture book, buried in a quiet cemetery in the heart of St. Augustine, Florida? The answer to that […]
Leonard Weisgard
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leonard-Weisgard.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/15/2000 Leonard Weisgard Transcript Leonard Weisgard died this past January, at the age of 83. He was one of the central figures in modern American children’s books, a gifted, prolific artist of dozens and dozens of picture books. He won the Caldecott award in […]
Wanda Gag
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wanda-Gag.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/10/2000 Wanda Gag Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Lost and Found Essay. When Wanda Gag, who was born March 11, 1893, was a young girl, a stranger, strolling down the residential street she lived on in New Ulm, Minnesota, saw her swinging on […]
Working Women’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Working-Womens-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2000 Working Women’s Day Transcript It’s International Women’s Day, a holiday in many countries around the world, as it should be in ours, where the events took place, in 1857, that over a century later lead, in 1977, to Unesco’s naming this day in […]
Walter Dean Myers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walter-Dean-Meyers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/29/2000 Walter Dean Myers Transcript In our continuing programs in celebration of Black History Month, a writer for children and young adults who must be mentioned is Walter Dean Myers. Among his many distincitons, he’s a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award […]