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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Joyce-Childrens-Book-Author-.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 2/3/2004 James Joyce’s Children’s Book Transcript James Joyce is famous for his gifts as a poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist. In fact, in 2004 Joyceans everywhere will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most memorable walks in literature — the […]
You’re hearing part of the sung version of John Lithgow’s bouyant new children’s book, I’m a Manatee, with illustrations by Ard Hoyt.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Swiss-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/4/2003 Children’s Books of Switzerland Transcript Switzerland is home to a rich tradition of children’s literature. The Swiss, in fact, invented the annual, a gift of engravings and verses that were given to children on the New Year. In the old days it was […]
That’s the familiar theme from Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Books-from-Germany.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/19/2003 Children’s Books from Germany Transcript In Germany, literature for children has a rich history. The first picture book, in fact, was the work of the German educational reformer Johan Comenius, who in 1658, published The Orbis Sensualium Pictus which roughly translated means A World of Things […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Womens-History-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/3/2003 Books for Women’s History Month Transcript One of the best places to start a young person’s journey to find out about women and their many roles in history would be the series of books by Fiona Macdonald called “The […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chris-Raschkas-Vision.mp3 Author Michelle Martin Air Date 2/27/2003 Chris Raschka’s Vision Transcript Chris Raschka is an illustrator and picture book maker whose talent lies in his ability to express the ineffable — those subtle, emotional nuances; the things that can’t be said in words, or, for that matter, represented in straight-ahead, […]
That’s John Lithgow reading the opening from his new picture book, Micawber, the story of a squirrel who is smitten by great art and who studies the paintings in the Metropolitan Museum from his vantage point on the roof, peeking in through the skylight windows.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tomi-Ungerer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/29/2002 Tomi Ungerer Transcript One of the best-loved picture books by the internationally celebrated author and illustrator, Tomi Ungerer, is The Three Robbers. The Robbers, disguised in their capes and tall, black hats, plunder the coaches that bounce through the European landscape of the […]