Tag: Interview
Mary Flanagan and Josie True
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mary-Flanagan-and-Josie-True.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 7/13/2005 Mary Flanagan and Josie True Transcript Recently, Recess! contributor Laurie Taylor spoke with Mary Flanagan, a visual artist and a video game designer who has been at work on a number of exciting new projects involving the emerging digital arts and the important role they […]
Kindling Words
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kindling-Words-1.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/25/2005 Kindling Words Transcript Today, Susan Raab brings us this interview, recorded earlier this year, with Alison James and Harold Underdown, the coordinators of the annual Kindling Words conference for those working in the field of children’s book publishing. Brief sound clip
On the Children’s Book Scene with Susan Raab
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/On-the-Childrens-Book-Scene-with-Susab-Raab.mp3 Author John Cech and Susan Raab Air Date 5/11/2005 On the Children’s Book Scene with Susan Raab Transcript We are speaking today with Susan Raab who reports regularly for Recess on the current children’s book scene. She’s also written An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion, to help people […]
Urban Lit. for Kids: Interview with Carol Faas
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Urban-Lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2004 Urban Lit. for Kids: Interview with Carol Faas Transcript We spoke earlier this fall with Carol Faas, the media specialist at one of the local high schools in our city, who has found herself adding some unusual new books to her library — […]
Mingzhou Zhang and The Seed of the Willow
This past year, Susan Raab visited the fair and spoke with a number of children’s book people from around the world, among them Mingzhou Zhang, who is organizing a major international conference about children’s books in Beijing in 2006.
Conversations with Children About Race
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Conversation-with-Children-About-Race.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/4/2004 Conversations with Children About Race Transcript Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? We wanted to continue the conversation today with […]
On Jules Verne
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jules-Verne-An-Interview-with-Jean-Michel-Margot.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/4/2004 On Jules Verne Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the French writer, Jules Verne, who was born in 1828 and who wrote dozens and dozens of novels during the course of his life. He is viewed as one of the inventors of […]
Walter Wick’s Magical Puzzles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walker-Wicks-Magical-Puzzles.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/24/2003 Walter Wick’s Magical Puzzles Transcript It’s National Game and Puzzle week, and we spoke recently with Walter Wick, the artist whose photographs, along with author Jean Marzallo’s riddles, have been challenging viewers, young and old alike, through their I Spy books. Wick’s latest book, Dream Machine, […]
Becoming a Paleontologist
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]
Shelley Jackson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Shelley-Jackson.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 7/31/2003 Shelley Jackson Transcript Shelley Jackson is a well-known author of hypertext and other new-wave digital fiction for adults, but Recess’s Laurie Taylor spoke with her recently about her work as a children’s book author — of two intriguing picture books that have already […]