Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mohieddin-Allabbads-Notebook.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/29/2006 Mohieddin Ellabbad’s Notebook Transcript When Mohieddin Ellabbad was a boy growing up in Cairo, he dreamed of becoming a streetcar conductor — driving his imposing, clattering machine down the center of the street. But what happened is that the boy became passionate about […]
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/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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Lucky-Fitch-Perkins.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/21/2004 Lucy Fitch Perkins Transcript Lucy Fitch Perkins was born in 1865, attended art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, taught design and drawing at Pratt Institute and after her marriage and move to Chicago, did free-lance illustration. It wasn’t until 1911, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Carl-Moon.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/6/2004 Carl Moon Transcript As a young boy growing up in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl Moon loved to read stories about Native Americans of the western United States and when he was still quite young he made up his mind to go West as soon […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tony-Sarg-Master-Puppeteer.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/24/2003 Tony Sarg, Master Puppeteer Transcript Although Tony Sarg wrote over a dozen children’s books, and as a youngster dreamed of becoming an illustrator, he possessed and displayed a mechanical ingenuity, even as a little boy, that lead him in another direction. Tony lived […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chris-Raschkas-Vision.mp3 Author Michelle Martin Air Date 2/27/2003 Chris Raschka’s Vision Transcript Chris Raschka is an illustrator and picture book maker whose talent lies in his ability to express the ineffable — those subtle, emotional nuances; the things that can’t be said in words, or, for that matter, represented in straight-ahead, […]