Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Arna-Bontemps-The-Sad-Faced-Boy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/21/2006 Sad-Faced Boy Transcript “That year, our first in northern Alabama, we lived beside a country road that was so red it might have been made of brick dust.” Thus begins Arna Bontemps’ story about how he came to write Sad-Faced Boy, his third children’s […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Gertrude-Steins-The-World-is-Round.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/7/2006 The World is Round Transcript Gertrude Stein’s first book for children, The World Is Round, published in 1939, is quite a departure from any children’s book published before it. For one thing, the text is printed in deep blue ink on stunning pink pages […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-House.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/2/2006 The Little House Transcript In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book published in 1942. It is the story of a little house in the country surrounded by trees, birds, and fields of flowers. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nathaniel-Hawthorns-The-Snow-Image.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/3/2006 Hawthorne’s “The Snow Image” Transcript Some of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s early stories for children which appeared initially in juvenile magazines ended up in collections of stories for adults. Such was the case with “Little Annie’s Ramble,” which appeared first in Youth’s Keepsake and then, a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rediscovering-They-Were-Strong-and-Good.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2005 They Were Strong and Good Transcript They Were Strong and Good, written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, won the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book in 1941. It is the story of Lawson’s parents and his two sets of grandparents, where […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Fairy-Land-of-Science.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/17/2005 The Fairyland of Science Transcript The Fairy-Land of Science, written by Arabella B. Buckley in 1878, uses the familiarity and allure of fairy tales to awaken in children both a love of nature and a love of science. It is a fact filled, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Science-in-Yesrdays-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/28/2005 19th Century Science Transcript Books on science and natural history composed a significant part of the publications for children in the 19th century. The writers of these texts were not scientists, but they were very conscientious and scrupulously accurate with their scientific facts […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Abraham-Lincolns-Caldecott-Award.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/20/2005 Abraham Lincoln’s Caldecott Transcript The 1940 winner of the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book was a biography of Abraham Lincoln written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire. The book tells the life story of Lincoln, beginning with his birth […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Samuel-Griswold-Goodrich-and-Peter-Parley.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/18/2005 Samuel Griswold Goodrich Transcript Samuel Goodrich, a 19th century children’s author and publisher, was the creator of the popular children’s literature persona, Peter Parley. As a youngster, Goodrich enjoyed nursery rhymes and fairy tales like “Puss in Boots” and “Jack the Giant Killer,” […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Paddling-Along-with-Holling-C-Holling.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/2/2005 Holling C. Holling Transcript Holling C. Holling was a children’s author who used exciting narratives to teach nature and geography in large format picture books for children. Holling grew up roaming the woods of northern Michigan and read with interest the books about […]