Tag: Susan Raab
Stephanie Bange
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Stephanie-Bange.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/22/2007 Stephanie Bange Transcript At the American Library Association’s most recent conference, our correspondent Susan Raab spoke with Stephanie Bange, who is chairing the ALA’s new initiative, “Kids @ Libraries.” We join their conversation with Susan’s question about one of the ways that library […]
Meet Candice Ransom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Candace-Ransom.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/15/2007 Meet Candice Ransom Transcript Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke recently with the author, Candice Ransom, who has written over a hundred books for young people — from picture books to her own original series of time travel books called The Time Spies, published by Wizards […]
Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Selznick-and-Hugo-Cabret.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/24/2007 Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab caught up with the artist Brian Selznick and talked with him about his latest picture book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This innovative work has been the talk of the children’s book […]
Katherine Patterson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Katherine-Patterson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/12/2007 Katherine Patterson Transcript Katherine Paterson is one of the most celebrated of writers for children, having received numerous awards for her books and for her life’s work. The film adaptation of her novel, Bridge to Terebithia, is now in theaters across the country. Earlier […]
Robie Harris
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Robie-Harris.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/30/2007 Robie Harris Transcript Recently, Susan Raab asked Robie Harris, the noted author for young people, about the many books she has written for children about their emotional lives and the questions they ask about the facts of their physical beings. She talked about […]
Jeffrey Garrett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Jeffrey-Garrett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/16/2007 Jeffrey Garrett Transcript At the annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair held every year in Italy, Susan Raab spoke with Jeffrey Garrett, the president of the jury that presents the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen awards every two years to a globally significant writer and […]
Nikki Grimes
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Nikki-Grimes.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/16/2006 Nikki Grimes Transcript Susan Raab recently spoke with the award-winning writer, Nikki Grimes, about her new book of poetry for children about grief. The poems take the reader inside this experience from various points of view. The book is called What is Goodbye? The […]
Tomie DePaola
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Tomie-DePaola.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/8/2006 Tomie DePaola Transcript Susan Raab had a wide-ranging conversation earlier this year with the well-known artist and author, Tomie DePaola, about the autobiographical nature of some of his books, the creative process, the pressures that children are under today, the highly recognizable nature […]
Peter Sis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-Peter-Sis.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 11/2/2006 Peter Sis Transcript Recently, Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the McArthur Genius Award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, Peter Sis, who is familiar to many readers for his books about Galileo, Darwin, and the amazing trip Sis’s father took to Tibet in the […]
Meet Jan Brett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Jan-Brett.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/26/2006 Jan Brett Transcript At this past summer’s American Library Association convention, Recess correspondent Susan Raab asked the award-winning, best-selling author/illustator Jan Brett about the kinds of roles that children’s books play, in the lives of both young and grown-up people — even if the book […]