Tag: Caldecott
Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lynn-Ward-and-His-Endless-Stories.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/28/2004 Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories Transcript Lynd Ward, an illustrator of both children’s and adult books, was born in 1905 in Chicago. His father was a Methodist minister. As a baby, he was often sick and when he was a year old, […]
Some Thoughts About Snow
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Thoughts-About-Snow.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/16/2002 Some Thoughts About Snow Transcript Children have a special relationship to snow. Perhaps there is something in the unpredictability of snowfall or its intangible magical qualities that children relate to. Like children, snow can be alternately perceived as carefree, giddy, peaceful, maddening and […]
Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecotts-Rollicking-Picture-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/26/2001 Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books Transcript Many people are familiar with Randolph Caldecott’s name because the Caldecott Medal, given annually to the most distinguished American picture book, is named for him, but the 16 picture books he illustrated are worth getting to know, too. […]
Poetry and Pictures for the Year
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-and-Pictures.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 01/02/2001 Poetry and Pictures for the Year Transcript There are all kinds of ways to help us mark the passage of a year’s time, some concrete or numerical, others imaginative and personal. One of the honor books from last year’s Caldecott awards, is a […]
Fueling the Imagination
It's the beginning of National Children's Book Week, and Heather Tomasello has some fuel to get us going.
James Thurber’s “Many Moons”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Thurbers-22Many-Moons22.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/28/2006 James Thurber’s “Many Moons” Transcript In 1944, Many Moons, a book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, won the Caldecott Award for the best American picture book for children. It was a story about a little princess who overindulged in […]
Barbara Cooney
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbara-Cooney.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2000 Barbara Cooney Transcript This past March we lost one of the remarkable, gentle voices in modern American children’s books–the writer and artist Barbara Cooney, who died at the age of 83, after having published over a hundred books, many of them prize-winning works, […]
Randolph Caldecott
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/22/2000 Randolph Caldecott Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. Why is Randolph Caldecott, the Lord of the English nursery and the father of the modern picture book, buried in a quiet cemetery in the heart of St. Augustine, Florida? The answer to that […]
Leonard Weisgard
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leonard-Weisgard.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/15/2000 Leonard Weisgard Transcript Leonard Weisgard died this past January, at the age of 83. He was one of the central figures in modern American children’s books, a gifted, prolific artist of dozens and dozens of picture books. He won the Caldecott award in […]
Working Women’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Working-Womens-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2000 Working Women’s Day Transcript It’s International Women’s Day, a holiday in many countries around the world, as it should be in ours, where the events took place, in 1857, that over a century later lead, in 1977, to Unesco’s naming this day in […]