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/Grandparents.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/10/1999 Grandparents Transcript Coming up this weekend is Grandparents Day on Sunday — a day for celebrations, and a good time to mention several of the fine books that have appeared recently about children and their interactions with the senior members of our families. […]
That’s Jack Prelutsky, whose birthday it is today, with part of his poem, “I am Diggin a Hole in the Ceiling.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/7/1999 Harry Potter Transcript Got your running shoes on? Got the car warmed up? Today Scholastic Books finally releases, in this country, the third of the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. What’s a Harry Potter book? Unless you’re really […]