Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Peter-Sis.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/2/2006 Peter Sis Transcript Recently, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the McArthur Genius Award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, Peter Sis, who is familiar to many readers for his books about Galileo, Darwin, and the amazing trip Sis’s father took to Tibet in the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Peter-Siss-The-Tree-of-Life-Book-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/12/2004 Peter Sis’ The “Tree of Life” Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the scientist Charles Darwin, who is the subject of a new picture book, The Tree of Life, by Peter Sis (Sees), a recipient this year of one of the prestigious MacArthur […]
Author John Cech Air Date 3/23/2001 Peter Sis’s Madlenka Transcript March is National Umbrella Month, a time, as Chase’s Calendar of Events tells us, that is “dedicated to the use of and conversation about” that most useful of implements. Though she isn’t talking about umbrellas, per se, the small heroine of Madlenka, the latest picture […]