Tag: Rita Smith
Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecotts-Rollicking-Picture-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/26/2001 Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books Transcript Many people are familiar with Randolph Caldecott’s name because the Caldecott Medal, given annually to the most distinguished American picture book, is named for him, but the 16 picture books he illustrated are worth getting to know, too. […]
Books of Trades
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-of-Trade.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/13/2005 Books of Trades Transcript What Do People Do all Day? is the title of a book by Richard Scarry published in 1968. It is a recent example of a long line of children’s books, which began appearing in the mid 18th century called […]
Howard Pyle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Howard-Pyle.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/7/2001 Howard Pyle Transcript Way back in 1877, American children going through their latest issues of St. Nicholas Magazine discovered some little fables with illustrations quite different from those to which they were accustomed. These simple drawings had a strong, heavy line, and a […]
Robinson Crusoe Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Robinson-Crusoe.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/21/2001 Robison Crusoe Transcript February is Robinson Crusoe month, named in honor of the anniversary of the rescue on February 1, 1709, of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who had been put ashore in September 1704, on an uninhabited island at his own request […]
Esther Howland, Valentine Entrepreneur
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Esther-Howland.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/13/2001 Esther Howland, Valentine Entrepreneur Transcript Esther Howland was the first person to take seriously the business of elaborate handmade valentines. As a teenager, in 1847 she received her first Valentine from England. It had an elaborate border of fine lace paper, and was […]
Gelett Burgess
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Gelett-Burgess.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/30/2001 Gelett Burgess Transcript Gelett Burgess, was an American editor, writer, and humorist, born in Boston on January 30, 1866. Although he has a long list of publications, adult and juvenile, he is remembered primarily for three achievements. First, he was the creator, in […]
January
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/January.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/1/2001 January Transcript “Here is January. All hail to thee.” Thus begins the writer of Peter Parley’s Annual for the year 1856, brimming with good cheer and optimism. The writers of children’s literature have taken numerous opportunities over the years to celebrate January by […]
Peter Pan Takes His First Bow
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Peter-Pan.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/27/2000 Peter Pan Transcript The play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, opened at the Duke of York’s Theater in London on December 27, 1904. The author, James Barrie, was one of the most popular playwrights of the time, but this play was […]
Purloined Christmas
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Purloined-Christmas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/18/2000 Purloined Christmas Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a story about something that went missing one Christmas. Casting about for an interesting children’s Christmas story, I found one in the December 1897 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Children that gives new meaning to […]
St. Nicholas Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St.-Nicholas-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/6/2000 St. Nicholas Day Transcript In her lost and found essay today, Rita Smith takes us from the fourth century to the present’s presents. December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, according to legend, the date a man named Nicholas, who lived in the fourth […]