Tag: Pop Up Books
Maurice Sendak, Still Popping Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maurice-Sendak-Still-Popping-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/17/2006 Maurice Sendak Transcript You’re hearing Jean Shepard reading the opening lines from one of the most important American picture books of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The Wild Things are turning 43 this fall, but they had already been […]
Stephen King Pops Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Stephen-King-Pops-Up.mp3 Author Cathlena Martin Air Date 12/13/2004 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King Pops Up Transcript When one discusses the author Stephen King’s stories, horror resounds. Whether it is the horror of a bloodthirsty car in Christine, a maniac clown in It, or a hysterical teenager covered in pig’s blood […]
Robert Sabuda’s Sharks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sharks-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2006 Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters Robert Sabuda’s Sharks Transcript I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely giddy over pop-up books — or any books that have moveable parts or some other tactile inventions. They can be simple, even rudimentary, like […]
The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Pop-Up-Book-of-Nightmares.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2002 The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares Pop-Up Book of Nightmares Transcript Not all children’s books are really for children. This may sound absurd, but if you take certain books, like the pop-up book, that are usually meant for kids, you’ll be surprised to find […]
Inventor’s Day Pop-Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventors-Day-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/12/2001 Inventor’s Day Pop-Up Transcript It’s Thomas A. Edison’s birthday today, and it’s also Inventor’s Day — the perfect time for a terrific new book, Robert Crowther’s Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions. Each of the five modern rooms in the book is filled with […]
First Talking Book
Perhaps you think you’re hearing a recent recording of farm animals, but this is really a very rare children’s book from the late 19th century called The Speaking Picture Book.