Tag: Interview
E. L. Konigsburg
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EL-Konigsburg.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/30/2007 E. L. Konigsburg Transcript At the recent Book Expo, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the distinguished author of works for young people, E. L. Konigsburg about her new novel, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, and about one of the central themes that animates […]
Margaret Quinlan
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Margaret-Quinlan.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/21/2007 Margaret Quinlan Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab spoke with Margaret Quinlan, the President of Peachtree Press in Atlanta about a number of their books, both fiction and non-fiction, that look at how children can understand and sometimes affect their worlds, both natural […]
Heidi Cortner Boiesen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Heidi-Cortner-Boiesen.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/14/2007 Heidi Cortner Boiesen Transcript Recently, Susan Raab spoke with Heidi Cortner Boiesen, the Director for the International Board of Books for Young People’s Documentation Center of Books for Disabled Young People in Oslo, Norway, about some of the recent titles that are attracting […]
Judy Galbraith
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Judy-Galbraith.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/7/2007 Judy Galbraith Transcript At the annual Bologna International Children’s Book Festival this past spring, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab talked to Judy Galbraith, the president and founder of Free Spirit Books. Here’s Judy Galbraith describing the press and one of their recent books about children and […]
The Art of Comics: Hart and Corman
At the annual comics conference at the University of Florida held earlier this spring, Stephanie Boluk spoke with two of the guest artists.
Barbaro
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbaro-Americas-Horse.mp3 Author John Cech with Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/4/2007 Barbaro Transcript The Kentucky Derby will be run tomorrow, and that has many of us thinking of last year’s winner, Barbaro. This incredible thoroughbred is the subject of Barbaro: America’s Horse, a new book for young people that’s just been […]
Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Selznick-and-Hugo-Cabret.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/24/2007 Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab caught up with the artist Brian Selznick and talked with him about his latest picture book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This innovative work has been the talk of the children’s book […]
Katherine Patterson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Katherine-Patterson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/12/2007 Katherine Patterson Transcript Katherine Paterson is one of the most celebrated of writers for children, having received numerous awards for her books and for her life’s work. The film adaptation of her novel, Bridge to Terebithia, is now in theaters across the country. Earlier […]
Robie Harris
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Robie-Harris.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/30/2007 Robie Harris Transcript Recently, Susan Raab asked Robie Harris, the noted author for young people, about the many books she has written for children about their emotional lives and the questions they ask about the facts of their physical beings. She talked about […]
Jeffrey Garrett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Jeffrey-Garrett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/16/2007 Jeffrey Garrett Transcript At the annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair held every year in Italy, Susan Raab spoke with Jeffrey Garrett, the president of the jury that presents the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen awards every two years to a globally significant writer and […]