Tag: Rita Smith
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here's Rita Smith with this week's Rediscovery essay.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sarah-Josepha-Hale.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2000 Sarah Josepha Hale Transcript Sarah Josepha Hale was born on a New Hampshire farm in 1788. She operated a school for seven years before marrying a lawyer and giving birth to five children. Her husband died in 1822 and Hale became a writer […]
Child Health Month
October is the perfect time for this bracing Rediscovery from Rita Smith.
Lois Lenski
Today, Rita Smith remembers author/illustrator Lois Lenski.
Edward Stratemeyer
Today, Rita Smith remembers Edward Stratemeyer, who made the series book a standard fixture in every child’s library.
James Thurber’s “Many Moons”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Thurbers-22Many-Moons22.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/28/2006 James Thurber’s “Many Moons” Transcript In 1944, Many Moons, a book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, won the Caldecott Award for the best American picture book for children. It was a story about a little princess who overindulged in […]
Banned Book Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Banned-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/25/2000 Banned Book Week Transcript The American Library Association has designated September 23 through the 30th as Banned Book Week. That practice, as Rita Smith reminds us, has been with us for quite awhile. Pressure to remove certain books for children from library shelves […]
Good Manners Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/13/2000 Good Manners Month Transcript September is Children’s Good Manners Month, and Rita Smith has a most polite rediscovery for us: September is Children’s Good Manners Month. I suppose that to children it seems like every month is Good Manners Month, considering how they […]
Walter Crane
Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane.
Edith Nesbit
Here's Rita Smith with this week's Rediscovery about E. Nesbitt.