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Children’s Favorites

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Favorite-Books-a-Century-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/6/2006 Children’s Favorites Transcript These days, a stroll past the desk in the children’s department of any public library will provide you with a list of “Best Books for Young Readers” or a few minutes spent online will lead to an abundance of good […]

Sarah Josepha Hale

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sarah-Josepha-Hale.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2000 Sarah Josepha Hale Transcript Sarah Josepha Hale was born on a New Hampshire farm in 1788. She operated a school for seven years before marrying a lawyer and giving birth to five children. Her husband died in 1822 and Hale became a writer […]

Alicia Nitecki

Today, noted scholar Alicia Nitecki tells us about her favorite book as a child.

Francis Burnett

Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, with a Lost and Found essay about Francis Burnett.