Tag: Lewis Carroll
Walter de la Mare
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/25/2001 Walter de la Mare Transcript Walter De la Mare was born in England in 1873. He was raised in a Victorian landscape of childhood that presented a dichotomy of poetic views. On the one side, there were the irreverent and humorous authors like Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, while […]
First Edition Alice
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Edition-Alice.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/17/2001 A Tenniel Illustration First Edition Alice Transcript “Curiouser and curiouser!” This is the comment of Alice in Wonderland after she eats the cake and feels herself beginning to “open out like the largest telescope that ever was.” Curious would also be a good […]
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy
We're in a Potter lull right now, but John Cech has a recommendation for a new fantasy series to tide children over.
Soup
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Soup-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/5/2000 Soup Transcript My old world mother-in-law made the kind of soup that would restore peace and tranquility at the end of the most terrible horrible no-good very bad day. It was ambrosia–one soup had 14 vegetables, and we still don’t know to this […]
Conundrums
Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, with a Lost and Found Essay about conundrums.