Tag: Picture Books
Helene Hanff’s Children’s Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Helene-Hanffs-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 8/8/2007 Helene Hanff’s Children’s Books Transcript In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die — and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for […]
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 […]
Picture Book Artists
That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano.
Barbara Cooney
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbara-Cooney.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2000 Barbara Cooney Transcript This past March we lost one of the remarkable, gentle voices in modern American children’s books–the writer and artist Barbara Cooney, who died at the age of 83, after having published over a hundred books, many of them prize-winning works, […]