Tag: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rowlings-and-The-Yearling.mp3 Author Patrick Ryan Air Date 8/8/2006 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Transcript Today, August 8th, marks the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling. Set in 1870 in the scrub country of North central Florida near Lake George, the story describes the waning […]
The Yearling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings-The-Yearling.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/6/2004 The Yearling Transcript The Yearling is the best known book to have come from the pen of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and letters between Rawlings and her editor at Scribner’s, Max Perkins, indicate that what began as a story for children about a boy […]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
These are the sounds of Cross Creek, near the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, just a few minutes south of Gainesville, Florida, where we produce these programs.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rowlings-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/8/2002 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Transcript Certain writers are known for their sense of place. There is Mark Twain and his muddy brown, strolling, Mississippi River, or Jack London and his icy-white, bone chilling, north woods. Less prolific perhaps, but no less able to convey […]
Leonard Weisgard
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leonard-Weisgard.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/15/2000 Leonard Weisgard Transcript Leonard Weisgard died this past January, at the age of 83. He was one of the central figures in modern American children’s books, a gifted, prolific artist of dozens and dozens of picture books. He won the Caldecott award in […]