Tag: Virginia Lee Burton
The Little House
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-House.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/2/2006 The Little House Transcript In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book published in 1942. It is the story of a little house in the country surrounded by trees, birds, and fields of flowers. […]
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mike-Mulligan.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/6/1999 Mike Mulligan Transcript I am standing at a part of the Big Dig near the Haymarket in Downtown Boston where they’re rebuilding a major link in the interstate highway system underground, something that might even be beyond the power of those champion diggers, […]