Francis Burnett
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, with a Lost and Found essay about Francis Burnett.
Phillip Pullman
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Philip-Pullman-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/18/1999 Phillip Pullman Transcript If your household is looking for some books that will take you to the next level after Harry Potter, let me say just two words: Phillip Pullman. Well, maybe I’d better use more than two. Phillip Pullman, like J. K. […]
National Children’s Book Week 2
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Book-Week-2.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/16/1999 National Children’s Book Week Transcript On the second day of National Children’s Book Week, we’re harvesting a wonderful crop of picture books that follow the week’s theme: “Plant a Seed …. Read.” In the most literal of ways, that’s what the writer Sarah […]
“Stretch Your Wings”: Famous Black Quotations for Teens
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Famous-Black-Quotations.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 11/10/1999 “Stretch Your Wings” Transcript Today, to mark the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jim Haskins, himself the author of two books about Dr. King, has this review of “Stretch Your Wings — famous Black Quotations for Teens. Words of […]
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Word Lists
As curator of a collection of late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century children’s books, curator Rita Smith comes across many things children have tucked into the pages of a book and forgotten about. Today, she’s here to discuss some of her findings.
Winnie the Pooh’s Anniversary
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winnie-the-Pooh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/21/1999 Winnie the Pooh’s Anniversary Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Because it’s the 73rd […]
Teen Read Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 10/18/1999 Teen Read Week Transcript This is Teen Read Week and we’ve asked Jim Haskins, one of our leading authors of books of non-fiction and biography for teenagers, for his thoughts about that perennial question: how do we get teens to read more in […]
Alice Childress
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Alice-Childress.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 10/12/1999 Alice Childress Transcript Alice Childress was a woman of firsts. Born on October 12th in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920 and raised in New York City, in 1952 she went on to write the first play by an African American woman to be […]
Parson Weems
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Parson-Weems.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/1999 Parson Weems Transcript Mason Locke Weems was born today in 1759. He was an ordained Anglican minister — hence the name he’s most frequently known by, “Parson Weems.” But he soon abandoned that calling for something more lucrative. He sold books, from village […]