Women of Worth
If Women’s History Month were to have been celebrated in the 1800s, it would probably have focused most of its attention on women’s accomplishments in the home, as Rita Smith explains.
Thomas A. Edison, Boy Inventor
It’s Inventor’s Day, in honor of the birthday of Thomas Edison. Here’s Rita Smith with a Found Again essay.
Charles Perrault
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Charles-Perrault.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/10/2002 Charles Perrault Transcript Charles Perrault, born in Paris in 1628, had an active life. He first became a lawyer, but growing bored with that, he became chief clerk in one of the city offices and then Receiver-General of Taxes for the city of […]
Dickens’s Other Christmas Carols
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dickens-Christmas-Carosl.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/24/2001 Dickens’s Other Christmas Carols Transcript Charles Dickens is intimately associated with our ideas of Christmas through his novels and through a series of books which have become known as the Christmas Books. The first of them, the familiar A Christmas Carol, was written […]
Mother Goose’s Mysterious Melodies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-1719.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/18/2001 Mother Goose’s Mysterious Melodies Transcript December 18, 1719: Thomas Fleet of Boston publishes Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose’s Melodies. You can find this bold statement in various almanacs and daily calendars and, if this is true, this publication would be the […]
Goody Two Shoes
Did you ever wonder who Goody Two Shoes is or was? Rita Smith sheds some light on the subject in her Rediscovery essay this week.
Jacob Abbott
In her on-going series of programs that rediscover interesting children’s book authors of the past, Rita Smith remembers Jacob Abbot.
Scenes in America
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scenes-in-America.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/1/2001 Scenes in America Transcript The travelogue storybook became an extremely popular genre in children’s literature in the 1870’s and 80’s, but much earlier than that, British children were being given glimpses into the world outside England. One of the earlier writers of these […]
Careers of Daring and Danger
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Careers-of-Daring-and-Danger.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/22/2001 Careers of Daring and Danger Transcript The October, 1901, issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls contained the last installment of a series entitled “Careers of Danger and Daring.” By demonstrating the courage and tenacity of such people as firemen and […]