Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-Rachel-Field.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/19/2002 Rediscovering Rachel Field Transcript Rachel Field was 10 years old before she learned to read. Born on September 19, 1894, in New York City, she spent the first 10 years of her life in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she attended a one-room school kept […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maxfield-Parrish-Visionary-Artist.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/25/2002 Maxfield Parrish Transcript Maxfield Parrish was the most popular artist in America in the early decades of the 20th century. In a survey taken in 1925, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish were thought to be the three greatest artists of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mitsumasa-Anno.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/19/2002 Mitsumasa Anno Transcript Tomorrow is the birthday of one of the most innovative creators of picture books for young people, the Japanese artist, Mitsumasa Anno. Born in 1926, in the small town of Tsuwana, Japan, he was trained as a teacher, and he […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Howard-Pyle.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/7/2001 Howard Pyle Transcript Way back in 1877, American children going through their latest issues of St. Nicholas Magazine discovered some little fables with illustrations quite different from those to which they were accustomed. These simple drawings had a strong, heavy line, and a […]
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 […]
Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane.
That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden party.
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 […]
