Tag: Picture Book
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Lucky-Fitch-Perkins.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/21/2004 Lucy Fitch Perkins Transcript Lucy Fitch Perkins was born in 1865, attended art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, taught design and drawing at Pratt Institute and after her marriage and move to Chicago, did free-lance illustration. It wasn’t until 1911, […]
Keba, Keba
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Takishi-Murakamis-Super-Flat-Keba-Keba.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 10/14/2004 Keba, Keba Transcript Keba Keba is Japanese for Gaudy Tawdry, and it is the title of artist Takashi Murakami’s first picture book for children, with a story written by pop musician Yujin Kitagawa. This bright, colorful book, appropriate for readers of all ages, […]
On This Spot
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Susan-Goodmans-On-This-Spot-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/2004 On This Spot Transcript As a graduate student, I studied with the poet, Charles Olson, who, among many other things — like coining the word, post-modern — held steadfastly to the idea that a poet had to locate him or herself in a […]
Carl Moon
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Carl-Moon.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/6/2004 Carl Moon Transcript As a young boy growing up in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl Moon loved to read stories about Native Americans of the western United States and when he was still quite young he made up his mind to go West as soon […]
Space and Stars
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Space-and-Stars-A-Shimmering-New-Group-of-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/28/2004 Space and Stars Transcript Stars! Stars! Stars! — not the Hollywood variety, but the real deal — those ever fascinating points of light shimmering above us in the night sky. Stars! Stars! Stars! is also the title of a new picture book for young children […]
Picture Book Artists
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Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lynn-Ward-and-His-Endless-Stories.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/28/2004 Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories Transcript Lynd Ward, an illustrator of both children’s and adult books, was born in 1905 in Chicago. His father was a Methodist minister. As a baby, he was often sick and when he was a year old, […]
James Daugherty
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Daugherty.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2004 James Daugherty Transcript James Daugherty was already an accomplished artist when he brought his talents to children’s literature. He had studied Baroque art in Europe, painted camouflage on ships in cubist shapes for the Navy during World War I, designed posters and painted […]
A Child’s Guide to Freud
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Childs-Guide-to-Freud.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2004 A Child’s Guide to Freud Transcript “If you beat your Daddy at Chinese Checkers…call this Healthy Aggression. If he decides to get mad about this, call him Insecure. If he changes his mind and smiles, call him unstable. If you trip him on […]
The Morrisons Got Game
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Morrisons-Got-Game.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/17/2004 The Morrisons Got Game Transcript There’s a new series of books out from the Nobel Prize Laureate, Toni Morrison and her son, Slade, with pictures by Pascal LeMaitre. The series is called Who’s Got Game? and each of the three titles that have appeared […]