Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-Little-Golden-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/3/2006 Little Golden Books Transcript Early in the 1940’s George Duplaix, head of the Artists and Writers Guild and his assistant, Lucille Ogle, came up with the idea of creating a line of modestly priced full-color children’s books. They mentioned the idea to an […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Busy-Busy-Richard-Scarry.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/8/2005 Busy, Busy Richard Scarry Transcript One of the most prolific of all creators of children’s books isn’t, as one might guess, J.K. Rowling or Dr. Seuss — but the late American writer/illustrator Richard Scarry. He has published over 300 books, many of which […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marketing-Little-Golden-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/8/2002 More Little Golden Books Transcript The “Little Golden Book” series of children’s books, introduced in 1942 by the publisher Simon and Schuster, were an immediate and phenomenal success. Within the first ten years they had sold 182,615,000 copies, jumping to 300,000,000 two years […]