This past year, Susan Raab visited the fair and spoke with a number of children’s book people from around the world, among them Mingzhou Zhang, who is organizing a major international conference about children’s books in Beijing in 2006.
Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids…
It’s the birthday this week of the French writer, Jules Verne, who was born in 1828 and who wrote dozens and dozens of novels during…
It’s National Game and Puzzle week, and we spoke recently with Walter Wick, the artist whose photographs, along with author Jean Marzallo’s riddles, have been…
It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a…
Shelley Jackson is a well-known author of hypertext and other new-wave digital fiction for adults, but Recess’s Laurie Taylor spoke with her recently about her…
Laurie Taylor interviews fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.
Today we are speaking with the noted biblical scholar, Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. I asked Professor Pagels…
We had a visit a few weeks ago from the Egg Man — no, not a poultryman or the character from the Beetles’ song, “I…
This past spring, the United Nations sponsored an international children’s summit that was meant to address a number of the global problems that children are facing today. We spoke recently with Barbara Woodhouse about the summit.