Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Abraham-Lincoln-Bibliographically.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/11/2005 Abraham Lincoln, Biographically Transcript The first full biography of Abraham Lincoln written specifically for young people is a highly laudatory book entitled The Forest Boy: A Sketch of the Life of Abraham Lincoln, for Young People by Z. A. Mudge published in 1867. Mudge’s objective […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/My-Caldecott-Year.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/14/2005 My Caldecott Year Transcript It took a while for the books to begin arriving at my doorstep, but once they did, there was hardly a day that I didn’t come home from work to find a couple of padded mail envelopes, cardboard boxes […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Choosing-the-Caldecott-Award-Winners.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/12/2005 The Caldecott Committee Transcript Every January when the Caldecott Award for picture books is announced, it is the culmination of a lot of work, reading, and discussion by a group of 15 people who compose the committee. Of the 15 members, eight, including […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Gruelle-Raggedy-Ann-and-Andy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/16/2004 Johnny Gruelle Transcript You have probably met Raggedy Ann and Andy, but what do you know of Johnny Gruelle, their creator? As a boy, Gruelle had an aversion to formal education and dropped out of high school before he graduated, but that didn’t […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Munro-Leaf-More-Than-Just-Ferdinand.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/7/2004 Monroe Leaf: More Than Just Ferdinand Transcript Munro Leaf was a children’s writer best known for writing The Story of Ferdinand, published in 1936 and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The story is about Ferdinand, a Spanish bull, who prefers smelling the flowers to participating […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Thanksgiving-Dinner-That-Flew.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/25/2004 The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away Transcript “A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away” is a poignant story about a cranky gander and a beloved son lost at sea that appeared in the juvenile periodical St. Nicholas in November, 1883. Hester is a young girl arriving […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Armstrong-Sperry-Call-it-Courage.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/4/2004 Armstrong Sperry’s Call it Courage Transcript When Armstrong Sperry was a boy in Connecticut, he had a grandfather who had been to sea. The grandfather told young Armstrong hair-raising tales about his adventures in the far corners of the world including being shipwrecked […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Celebrating-Halloween-A-Hundred-Years-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/28/2004 A Halloween Party in 1905 Transcript A young girl invites 16 boys and 15 girls to a Halloween party. All invitees happily accept and at six o’clock on October 31, the 31 guests arrive, greeted on the lawn by a life-sized witch. Her […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Lucky-Fitch-Perkins.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/21/2004 Lucy Fitch Perkins Transcript Lucy Fitch Perkins was born in 1865, attended art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, taught design and drawing at Pratt Institute and after her marriage and move to Chicago, did free-lance illustration. It wasn’t until 1911, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Carl-Moon.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/6/2004 Carl Moon Transcript As a young boy growing up in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl Moon loved to read stories about Native Americans of the western United States and when he was still quite young he made up his mind to go West as soon […]