Tag: Newbery Award
Armstrong Sperry’s Call it Courage
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Armstrong-Sperry-Call-it-Courage.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/4/2004 Armstrong Sperry’s Call it Courage Transcript When Armstrong Sperry was a boy in Connecticut, he had a grandfather who had been to sea. The grandfather told young Armstrong hair-raising tales about his adventures in the far corners of the world including being shipwrecked […]
Children’s Literature from Poland
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Books-from-Poland.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/29/2003 Children’s Literature from Poland Transcript The history of Poland, as well as the history of Polish children’s books, has long been influenced by its un-enviable geographic location between the rising and falling superpowers of Prussia, Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazi Germany and most […]
Karen Hesse
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Karen-Hesse-Out-of-the-Dust.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/19/2002 Karen Hesse Transcript Karen Hesse has just won one of the MacArthur “genius” awards for her books for children and young adults. There is a great deal to celebrate in this announcement — a truly gifted writer has received her due, and that’s […]
Rediscovering Rachel Field
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-Rachel-Field.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/19/2002 Rediscovering Rachel Field Transcript Rachel Field was 10 years old before she learned to read. Born on September 19, 1894, in New York City, she spent the first 10 years of her life in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she attended a one-room school kept […]
Mildred Taylor
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]
Presidents’ Day
It's Presidents' Day, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about how to make this holiday meaningful for kids today.
Hugh Lofting
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hugh-Lofting.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/12/2001 Hugh Lofting Transcript This weekend is the late Hugh Lofting’s birthday. Lofting, who was born in Maidenhead England in 1886, holds a special place in the annals of children’s literature. He is author of the wildly popular Doctor Doolittle book series. Although Lofting […]
Lois Lenski
Today, Rita Smith remembers author/illustrator Lois Lenski.