Tag: Picture Book
The Witches of Venice
The gift they have brought to the King and Queen of Venice, who have not been able to have children, is a magical plant. If the King and Queen plant it, the Fairies say, it will blossom into a child.
Maurice Sendak’s Legacy: Brundibar
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brundibar.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/12/2006 Brundibar Transcript You’re hearing the moving lullaby from the children’s opera, Brundibar, which was written by Hans Krása in the late 1930s and performed fifty-five times in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943. It was sung by children who would soon perish in the […]
RFK, Jr.’s Saint Francis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/RFKs-St-Francis-of-Assisi.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2006 RFK, Jr.’s Saint Francis Transcript Sometimes it’s less a matter of our choosing the subjects that we write about, than it is the subjects that choose us. This is certainly what happened with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest book, St. Francis of Assisi, A […]
The Little House
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-House.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/2/2006 The Little House Transcript In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book published in 1942. It is the story of a little house in the country surrounded by trees, birds, and fields of flowers. […]
Zen Shorts, and Other Wisdoms
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zen-Shorts-and-Other-Wise-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/15/2005 Zen Shorts, and Other Wisdoms Transcript This year, for presents, I’m giving wisdom. Not my own, mind you. I’m not at all sure how much of that I have. But rather in the form of some picture books, like Hugh Upton’s retellings of […]
They Were Strong and Good
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rediscovering-They-Were-Strong-and-Good.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2005 They Were Strong and Good Transcript They Were Strong and Good, written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, won the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book in 1941. It is the story of Lawson’s parents and his two sets of grandparents, where […]
Who Moved My Cheese for Kids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-for-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2005 Who Moved My Cheese for Kids Transcript I’ve been thinking about the meaning of cheese today. Not the gouda and brie and swiss that may be in our refrigerators, but metaphoric cheese. Allegorical cheese. Life-lesson cheese. It all started when someone recently gave […]
David Shannon’s Alice the Fairy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/David-Shannons-Alice-the-Fairy.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/31/2005 David Shannon’s Alice the Fairy Transcript In her final interview from this year’s Book Expo, Susan Raab spoke with the award-winning author/illustrator David Shannon, who’s given us such picture books about the extraordinary, ordinary lives of young children as Oops!, David Gets in Trouble, and A […]
Holling C. Holling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Paddling-Along-with-Holling-C-Holling.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/2/2005 Holling C. Holling Transcript Holling C. Holling was a children’s author who used exciting narratives to teach nature and geography in large format picture books for children. Holling grew up roaming the woods of northern Michigan and read with interest the books about […]
Lost Worlds and Ancient Places
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lost-Worlds-and-Ancient-Places.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/25/2005 Lost Worlds and Ancient Places Transcript The summer is the perfect time for kids to go exploring, in search of far away places and lost worlds. And there are many recent books that will help to whet their appetites for ancient lands, like […]