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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Abraham-Lincoln-Bibliographically.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/11/2005 Abraham Lincoln, Biographically Transcript The first full biography of Abraham Lincoln written specifically for young people is a highly laudatory book entitled The Forest Boy: A Sketch of the Life of Abraham Lincoln, for Young People by Z. A. Mudge published in 1867. Mudge’s objective […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vinnie-Ream-Americas-Youngest-Sculptress.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/25/2003 Vinnie Ream, America’s Youngest Sculptress Transcript Vinnie Ream was the youngest American artist ever to receive a commission from the federal government. In 1866, the United States Congress passed a resolution which offered the 19-year-old a remarkable opportunity, to create a life-sized statue […]