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Animals of the Bible

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 […]

Hitty, Her First 100 Years

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hitty-Her-First-100-Years.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/4/2002 Hitty, Her First 100 Years Transcript The publication of Hitty, Her First 100 Years was announced to the world on November 3, 1929, in the pages of the New York Herald Tribune. The book purports to be the memoirs of Hitty, short for Hitabel, […]