Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Addams-and-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/8/2006 Jane Addam’s Children Transcript It’s the 75th anniversary this coming Sunday, December 10th, of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 to Jane Addams, who was one of America’s most innovative social thinkers and one of its most active, progressive leaders. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Nikki-Grimes.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/16/2006 Nikki Grimes Transcript Susan Raab recently spoke with the award-winning writer, Nikki Grimes, about her new book of poetry for children about grief. The poems take the reader inside this experience from various points of view. The book is called What is Goodbye? The […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Tomie-DePaola.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/8/2006 Tomie DePaola Transcript Susan Raab had a wide-ranging conversation earlier this year with the well-known artist and author, Tomie DePaola, about the autobiographical nature of some of his books, the creative process, the pressures that children are under today, the highly recognizable nature […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Peter-Sis.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/2/2006 Peter Sis Transcript Recently, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the McArthur Genius Award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, Peter Sis, who is familiar to many readers for his books about Galileo, Darwin, and the amazing trip Sis’s father took to Tibet in the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Jan-Brett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/26/2006 Jan Brett Transcript At this past summer’s American Library Association convention, Recess correspondent Susan Raab asked the award-winning, best-selling author/illustator Jan Brett about the kinds of roles that children’s books play, in the lives of both young and grown-up people — even if the book […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-MT-Anderson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/19/2006 M. T. Anderson Transcript It’s Teen Read Week, and Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with M. T. Anderson, the author of one of the most thought-provoking young adult novels to come out in recent years — Feed — which was a finalist for the National […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meg-Cabot-Talking-about-The-Princess-Diaries.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/30/2006 Meg Cabot Transcript Recently, Susan Raab spoke with Meg Cabot, the best-selling author of The Princess Diaries, and asked her about how this popular series of books began. The written transcript for this program is currently unavailable. Please refer to audio clip.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Kate-diCamillo.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/22/2006 Kate DiCamillo Transcript At this year’s Book Expo, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the award-winning author Kate DiCamillo about her most recent book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Brief Sound Clip
That’s Bluestraveler with the opening from the title song for Dog Train from Sandra Boynton, the best-selling author and illustrator of children’s books, greeting cards, and most recently, the producer of delightfully funny and sophisticated book and music fusions like The Philadelphia Chickens.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Few-Miniutes-with-Colleen-Salley.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 6/28/2006 A Few Minutes with Colleen Salley Transcript Earlier this year, at the American Library Association’s mid-winter conference, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the Louisiana author and storyteller, Coleen Salley. The written transcript for this program is currently unavailable. Please refer to audio clip.