Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-City-of-Festivals-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/28/2005 Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals Transcript This time of year, the center for children’s culture in this country always moves to Chicago, where the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and the Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival both begin this weekend. This year marks the 22nd […]

Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jim-Haskins-African-Americas-Biographer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/26/2005 Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer Transcript Jim Haskins passed away this summer. He was very well-known as a writer of biographies and other works of non-fiction for children, young people, and adults, and he was my friend and colleague in the English Department […]

They Were Strong and Good

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rediscovering-They-Were-Strong-and-Good.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2005 They Were Strong and Good Transcript They Were Strong and Good, written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, won the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book in 1941. It is the story of Lawson’s parents and his two sets of grandparents, where […]

Teen Read Week – Real Time

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Real-Time.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/20/2005 Real Time Transcript How important is it that children learn to “read the world”1 along with the words on a page? More than 35 years ago, Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator, introduced the teaching of critical literacy, a reading strategy that “promotes reflection, transformation, […]

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The Other Wizard – of Earthsea

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Other-Wizard-of-Earthsea.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/19/2005 The Other Wizard – of Earthsea Transcript Almost everything in children’s books these days still circles back to Harry Potter, especially with another movie based on the fourth of J. K. Rowling’s novels getting ready to open next month. Most teenagers are probably […]

The Fairyland of Science

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Fairy-Land-of-Science.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/17/2005 The Fairyland of Science Transcript The Fairy-Land of Science, written by Arabella B. Buckley in 1878, uses the familiarity and allure of fairy tales to awaken in children both a love of nature and a love of science. It is a fact filled, […]

Conversation with Ed Young

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ed-Youngs-Beyond-the-Great-Mountains.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 9/29/2005 Conversation with Ed Young Transcript The award-winning picture book maker, Ed Young, spoke with Recess commentator Susan Raab about his new book, Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem About China. Brief Sound Clip

19th Century Science

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Science-in-Yesrdays-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/28/2005 19th Century Science Transcript Books on science and natural history composed a significant part of the publications for children in the 19th century. The writers of these texts were not scientists, but they were very conscientious and scrupulously accurate with their scientific facts […]

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Tale-of-Peter-Rabbit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/26/2005 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Transcript C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia books, thought that there were three ways of writing for children. One of the better ways (though not the best, he thought) was to let your story “grow out of a [tale] […]

Abraham Lincoln’s Caldecott

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Abraham-Lincolns-Caldecott-Award.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/20/2005 Abraham Lincoln’s Caldecott Transcript The 1940 winner of the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book was a biography of Abraham Lincoln written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire. The book tells the life story of Lincoln, beginning with his birth […]

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