Baseball Cards
As curator of a historical children’s literature collection, Rita Smith comes across many things youngsters stuck into pages of a book. Today, she discusses a recent find: baseball cards.
Fall Kids’ Cartoons
We’re talking today with Elaine Needelman about new shows for the fall TV lineup.
H. A. Rey
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/H-A-Rey.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/16/1999 H. A. Rey Transcript Hans Augusto Rey, better known as H.A., and his wife and collaborator Margret, escaped from Paris in 1939 just before the Nazis captured the city. They left Paris on bicycles, with only their overcoats and some ideas for children’s […]
Robert McCloskey
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/McClosky.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/15/1999 Robert McCloskey Transcript In Boston they take their ducklings very seriously. In Boston Common, there’s a larger than life-sized statue of the famous mother duck and her children from Robert McCloskey’s 1942 Caldecott award-winning picture book, Make Way for Ducklings. Every spring, parents […]
Bullies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bullies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/14/1999 Bullies Transcript On my way home from school every day in third grade, Paulie Sullivan beat me up. I fought him, but always lost. He was bigger than me — a burly fifth grader. I tried coming home a different way, but within […]
Roald Dahl
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dahl.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/13/1999 Roald Dahl Transcript It’s always struck me as one of the supremely correct accidents in the history of children’s books when the half-starving Charlie Bucket finds the last of Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets in his second Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight chocolate bar, just when […]
Grandparents
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Grandparents.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/10/1999 Grandparents Transcript Coming up this weekend is Grandparents Day on Sunday — a day for celebrations, and a good time to mention several of the fine books that have appeared recently about children and their interactions with the senior members of our families. […]
Jack Prelutsky
That’s Jack Prelutsky, whose birthday it is today, with part of his poem, “I am Diggin a Hole in the Ceiling.”
Harry Potter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/7/1999 Harry Potter Transcript Got your running shoes on? Got the car warmed up? Today Scholastic Books finally releases, in this country, the third of the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. What’s a Harry Potter book? Unless you’re really […]