Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lynn-Ward-and-His-Endless-Stories.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/28/2004 Lynd Ward and His Wordless Stories Transcript Lynd Ward, an illustrator of both children’s and adult books, was born in 1905 in Chicago. His father was a Methodist minister. As a baby, he was often sick and when he was a year old, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-of-Green-Gables.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/21/2004 Anne of Green Gables Transcript One day, in 1904, the writer Lucy Maud Montgomery was reading through one of her journals from the previous year and came across this note: “Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Daugherty.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2004 James Daugherty Transcript James Daugherty was already an accomplished artist when he brought his talents to children’s literature. He had studied Baroque art in Europe, painted camouflage on ships in cubist shapes for the Navy during World War I, designed posters and painted […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-Carroll-Moore.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/20/2004 Anne Carroll Moore Transcript During National Library Week I would like to pay homage to Anne Carroll Moore, the librarian largely responsible for something we take for granted today: free access to books in public libraries for children, regardless of age, reading ability, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Young-Poets-in-St-Nicholas-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/13/2004 St. Nicholas and Poetry Transcript In 1899, the editors of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls established monthly competitions in various arts, including poetry. The winning entries were published in the magazine, in a column called “The St. Nicholas League.” Each monthly competition had […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings-The-Yearling.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/6/2004 The Yearling Transcript The Yearling is the best known book to have come from the pen of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and letters between Rawlings and her editor at Scribner’s, Max Perkins, indicate that what began as a story for children about a boy […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Frontier-Children-on-the-Westward-Trail.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/23/2004 Frontier Children Transcript In the second half of the 19th century, the prevailing view of the ideal Victorian child was someone who could enjoy a life of carefree happiness before coming of age and taking on adult responsibilities, but for thousands of children […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Rediscovery-Allison-Uttley.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/9/2004 Alison Uttley Transcript Alison Uttley, a well known British children’s writer, was born in 1884 on a farm in rural England. As a child she was an avid reader and wrote poetry. She also developed a love of science, attended Manchester University, and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Agusta-Baker-Storyteller-Supreme.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/23/2004 Augusta Baker Transcript Augusta Baker was an exceptional librarian who made many contributions to the improvement of children’s services during a stellar career that spanned five decades. She began working in 1937 as assistant children’s librarian at the 135th Street Branch of the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nat-Love-African-American-Cowboy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/5/2004 Nat Love, African American Cowboy Transcript In the mid 19th century, the western frontier drew many adventure seekers, some of them quite young teenagers. Nat Love was born in a Tennessee slave cabin in 1856. It took a long time for news of […]