This description of reconciliation comes from Kate DiCamillo’s novel The Tale of Despereaux, winner of the 2004 John Newbery Medal, but the sentiment is shared by all of those who participate in International Forgiveness Day, which is held each year on the first Sunday of August.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hitty-Her-First-100-Years.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/4/2002 Hitty, Her First 100 Years Transcript The publication of Hitty, Her First 100 Years was announced to the world on November 3, 1929, in the pages of the New York Herald Tribune. The book purports to be the memoirs of Hitty, short for Hitabel, […]
Did you ever wonder who Goody Two Shoes is or was? Rita Smith sheds some light on the subject in her Rediscovery essay this week.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/1st-Newberry-Award.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/27/2000 The First Newbery Award Transcript On June 27, 1922, at the annual American Library Association meetings in Detroit, Michigan, in a room filled to overflowing, the first Newbery Medal, for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published the preceeding year, […]