Pivotal Books – Romance Writers
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to talk about pivotal books that have influenced romance writers.
Faith Ringgold
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faith-Ringgold.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/24/2000 Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is a remarkable African American artist and writer, and Black History Month is a good time for every child to become familiar, if they aren’t already, with her stunning work. Her artistic career began with pictures that drew their […]
W. E. B. duBois
University of Florida professor Jim Haskins shares the story of W. E. B. Du Bois for Black History Month.
Photos as Illustrations
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Photos-as-Illustrations.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/22/2000 Photos as Illustrations Transcript In 1971, in the introduction to The Black Experience in Children’s Books, Augusta Baker wrote, “The depiction of a black person is exceptionally important in books for children. An artist can portray a black child …and make him attractive […]
African American Dick and Jane
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/African-American-Dick-and-Jane.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/18/2000 Dick and Jane Transcript The Dick and Jane readers that most baby boomers and pre-boomers learned their alphabets from first appeared in 1930. The idea was the brainchild of Zerna Sharp, a reading consultant, who thought that children could best learn how to […]
Books for Black History Month
Here’s Linda Lamme with some books she’d like to recommend for Black History Month.
Boy Scouts Books
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to discuss Boy Scouts books.
Manners
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to discuss historical manners instruction for children.
Horatio Alger
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Horatio-Alger.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/13/2000 Horatio Alger Transcript Today is the birthday of Horatio Alger, a prolific nineteenth century writer of novels for boys which became known as the “rags to riches” stories. Alger had been writing and publishing boy’s stories in magazines for ten years when, in […]
Up In Smoke
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Smoking-Again.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/10/2000 Up in Smoke Transcript I was tuned in to The Real World one night and it suddenly struck me that everyone in the cast of MTV’s hit show about the supposedly “real” lives of young people today was smoking. Not awkward, peer bonding […]