Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-House.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/2/2006 The Little House Transcript In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book published in 1942. It is the story of a little house in the country surrounded by trees, birds, and fields of flowers. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Geography-and-the-Imagination.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/9/2005 Geography Awareness Week Transcript While it’s Geography Awareness Week, we wanted to mention some books that bring the subject of geography alive in unusual ways for young readers. Geography and culture are intertwined, and facts can be woven together by the imagination. Did […]
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 […]
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/Paddling-Along-with-Holling-C-Holling.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/2/2005 Holling C. Holling Transcript Holling C. Holling was a children’s author who used exciting narratives to teach nature and geography in large format picture books for children. Holling grew up roaming the woods of northern Michigan and read with interest the books about […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mei-Li-the-Second-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/12/2005 “Mei Li,” the Second Caldecott Transcript A book entitled Mei Li [May Lee] written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth, was the winner of the Caldecott Award in 1939, the second year the Award for the most distinguished American picture book was presented. The story is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Animals-of-the-Bible-The-First-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/16/2005 Animals of the Bible Transcript In 1938 Animals of the Bible became the first book to be awarded the Caldecott Medal given annually since then to the most distinguished picture book published in the United States. For this book, the recipient of the award, artist […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Caldecott-Award-Winners-for-2004-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/10/2005 Caldecott Award Winners Transcript Kevin Henkes is the artist who received the 2005 Caldecott Award for his picture book Kitten’s First Full Moon. The Caldecott Award is given annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/My-Caldecott-Year.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/14/2005 My Caldecott Year Transcript It took a while for the books to begin arriving at my doorstep, but once they did, there was hardly a day that I didn’t come home from work to find a couple of padded mail envelopes, cardboard boxes […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Choosing-the-Caldecott-Award-Winners.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/12/2005 The Caldecott Committee Transcript Every January when the Caldecott Award for picture books is announced, it is the culmination of a lot of work, reading, and discussion by a group of 15 people who compose the committee. Of the 15 members, eight, including […]