Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thirty-Five-Years-of-Fudge.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 8/16/2007 35 Years of Fudge Transcript In 1972, Farley Drexel Hatcher, more commonly known as Fudge, burst onto the pages of Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and nothing has been able to contain him since, much to the chagrin of his older […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kipling-Encore.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 8/15/2007 Kipling Encore Transcript Rudyard Kipling is much more than the author of the Jungle Book, which, no children, did NOT begin life as a cartoon. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that because his work has been downplayed for many years, not because it’s not […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Heidi-Cortner-Boiesen.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/14/2007 Heidi Cortner Boiesen Transcript Recently, Susan Raab spoke with Heidi Cortner Boiesen, the Director for the International Board of Books for Young People’s Documentation Center of Books for Disabled Young People in Oslo, Norway, about some of the recent titles that are attracting […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Play-Ball.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/13/2007 Play Ball Transcript You’ve no doubt kicked or caught or inflated or pitched or served or spiked or teed off on one of these in the last few weeks, and you may well have watched countless hours of games played with them. But […]
The Deightons were the darlings of the accoustic folk rock busking world during the 1980s and 90s, offering an eclectic mix of old timey and contemporary music, played by the Deighton parents, as well as all of their four children.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nancy-Yi-Fan-and-Swordbird.mp3 Author Linda Lamme Air Date 8/9/2007 Nancy Fan and Swordbird Transcript One of the more amazing stories to come out of our town, Gainesville, Florida, this past year is the publication of the first novel in a series by thirteen year old writer, Nancy Yi Fan (“FON”). The book […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Helene-Hanffs-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 8/8/2007 Helene Hanff’s Children’s Books Transcript In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die — and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Judy-Galbraith.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/7/2007 Judy Galbraith Transcript At the annual Bologna International Children’s Book Festival this past spring, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab talked to Judy Galbraith, the president and founder of Free Spirit Books. Here’s Judy Galbraith describing the press and one of their recent books about children and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Seeing-Beyond-Sight.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/6/2007 Seeing Beyond Sight Transcript Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing interest — indeed, something of a movement — in teaching young people to use photography as an artistic means to express their unique perspectives, as well as to document their […]
You can build a very aerobic morning, or afternoon, or evening in your house around this song alone. It’s called, as you might guess, “Dance Around,” and it’s on the new Ralph’s World CD called Green Gorilla, Monster & Me .