Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goops.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/11/2000 Gelett Burgess’ Goops Transcript Today we are celebrating Etiquette Day. Multitudes of etiquette books have been written over the years for children. Most of the early ones took themselves very seriously, but in 1900, Gellett Burgess wrote and illustrated a book entitled Goops […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Barrie.mp3 Author Rita Smith with Fiona Barnes Air Date 5/8/2000 James M. Barrie Transcript James M. Barrie was born May 9, 1860. Donna R. White, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggests that, “J. M. Barrie’s importance to children’s literature can be summed up in one name: Peter Pan.”(1) […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Palmer-Cox.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/25/2000 Palmer Cox’s Birthday Transcript This week we celebrate the birthday of Palmer Cox, one of the most popular American writers for children in the last two decades of the 19th century. Do you know what he is famous for? His elfin creatures once […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Bunyan.mp3 Author Rita Smith with reading by Hank Conner Air Date 4/12/2000 John Bunyan Transcript For Young People’s Poetry Week, Rita Smith brings us a poetic rediscovery. This week we are celebrating National Youth Poetry Week. Poetry has been used as a means of teaching and entertaining children for centuries. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/5/2000 St. Nicholas in April Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. It contained fiction and non-fiction articles, as well as poetry, letters, and puzzles. Many […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Years-Ago-in-ST-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/29/2000 St. Nicholas in March Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas, the premier magazine for boys and girls, began publication November 1873 and was issued monthly until March 1940. Each issue, awaited anxiously by thousands of American children, carried a variety […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Randolph-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/22/2000 Randolph Caldecott Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. Why is Randolph Caldecott, the Lord of the English nursery and the father of the modern picture book, buried in a quiet cemetery in the heart of St. Augustine, Florida? The answer to that […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wanda-Gag.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/10/2000 Wanda Gag Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Lost and Found Essay. When Wanda Gag, who was born March 11, 1893, was a young girl, a stranger, strolling down the residential street she lived on in New Ulm, Minnesota, saw her swinging on […]
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to talk about pivotal books that have influenced romance writers.