Tag: Fable
Stoney Hawk
We couldn't let January glide by without a fable from Barry Stewart Mann.
Elmore Leonard – For Kids?
That’s Neil Patrick Harris (remember Doogie Hauser, M.D.?) reading the opening of Elmore Leonard’s first book for children, A Coyote’s in the House.
Vikram Seth’s Children’s Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vikram-Seths-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 6/15/2004 Vikram Seth’s Children’s Books Transcript One of the most well-known authors to emerge from the happy cultural fusion of East and West is the distinguished Indian novelist and poet Vikram Seth, winner of numerous international literary awards. Author of the critically acclaimed The Golden […]
The Morrisons Got Game
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Morrisons-Got-Game.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/17/2004 The Morrisons Got Game Transcript There’s a new series of books out from the Nobel Prize Laureate, Toni Morrison and her son, Slade, with pictures by Pascal LeMaitre. The series is called Who’s Got Game? and each of the three titles that have appeared […]
World Turtle Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tales-for-World-Turtle-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/22/2002 World Turtle Day Transcript Today, in honor of National Turtle Day, I’m going to celebrate the turtle who has been held up to children for centuries as a role model of persistence, diligence, and stick-to-it-tiveness; the slow and steady tortoise in the fable, […]