Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mei-Li-the-Second-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/12/2005 “Mei Li,” the Second Caldecott Transcript A book entitled Mei Li [May Lee] written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth, was the winner of the Caldecott Award in 1939, the second year the Award for the most distinguished American picture book was presented. The story is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nathaniel-Hawthornes-First-Story.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/5/2005 “Little Annie’s Ramble” Transcript Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first published story for children, “Little Annie’s Ramble,” appeared in late 1834 in an annual intended as a holiday gift for children entitled Youth’s Keepsake: A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for Young People. Although the story is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-Harriet-Lothrop.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/21/2005 Harriett Lothrop Transcript Harriet Lothrop, who wrote under the pen name of Margaret Sidney, left young readers a multi-faceted literary legacy. One day on a trip into the country, when she was a little girl in the 1840’s, she saw a little brown […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Animals-of-the-Bible-The-First-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/16/2005 Animals of the Bible Transcript In 1938 Animals of the Bible became the first book to be awarded the Caldecott Medal given annually since then to the most distinguished picture book published in the United States. For this book, the recipient of the award, artist […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Dime-Novel-Pulp-Fiction.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/9/2005 The Dime Novel Transcript Although there had been cheap, sensational paper-bound literature for more than 30 years, the true dime novel began to appear regularly in 1860, when Irwin Beadle & Co., a New York publisher, inaugurated a series called “Beadle’s Dime Novels.” […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Family-Stories-from-the-Past.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/24/2005 Family Stories Transcript In Good Wives: A Story for Girls, Louisa May Alcott has Jo March declare “I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world,” and stories such as Good Wives and Little Women, in which the action and interactions center […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Eleanor-Estes-and-the-Moffats.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/9/2005 Eleanor Estes Transcript Eleanor Estes, born May 9, 1906, wrote books for children for over 45 years, up to her death in 1988, but it is her early books, particularly those about the Moffat family, published in the early 1940’s, that remain her […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ye-Olde-Science.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/29/2005 Ye Olde Science Transcript When John Newbery published the first books specifically designed for children in the mid-1700’s the books had a dual purpose: to both amuse and instruct. Many of the books were imaginative literature, but some were non-fiction and some of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Caldecott-Award-Winners-for-2004-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/10/2005 Caldecott Award Winners Transcript Kevin Henkes is the artist who received the 2005 Caldecott Award for his picture book Kitten’s First Full Moon. The Caldecott Award is given annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Literature-for-Children-Digital-Library.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/24/2005 The Literature for Children Digital Library Transcript Would you like to read a version of Little Red Riding Hood published in 1880? Or perhaps The Union ABC, an alphabet book published in 1865 in honor of the Union victory in the Civil War, is […]