A William Steig Weekend
That’s the opening from the animated film version of Dr. Desoto, a children’s book by William Steig about a very principled, compassionate, and clever mouse dentist.
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-International-Childrens-Film-Festival-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/23/2003 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Transcript The epi-center of children’s cultural life in this country for the next few weeks shifts once again to Chicago, with the opening of the twentieth Chicago International Children’s Film Festival today. Each year the Festival screens hundreds […]
Celebrating Weston Woods
That’s Mort Schindel, the founder and guiding spirit of Weston Woods Studios, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Clowning Around
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Clowns.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2003 Clowning Around Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and that has us thinking about this ancient figure, who is the primal source of laughter. Our word for “clown” comes from the old Icelandic, klunni, which meant a clumsy person, and is related to other […]
The Wild Things Meet E.T.
You’re hearing a little from Randolph Wolf’s ballet music for Maurice Sendak’s 1963 Caldecott-award-winning, Where the Wild Things Are.
Ian Fleming
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ian-Fleming.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/10/2003 Ian Fleming Transcript Ian Flemming, the author of the original James Bond novels, once said of himself that he had never grown out of his adolescence. Whether or not this is true, it is possible that Flemming’s greatest character, James Bond, derives much […]
Ntozake Shange
You’re hearing a little from the recent film version of Ntozake Shange’s (En-toe-sake Shange’s) book, Whitewash.
Robin Hood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Robin-Hood.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/12/2003 Robin Hood Transcript In today’s world, where children have so many events organized for them, where the activities of childhood begin to mountain into a stack of soccer schedules and field trip permissions, you begin to wonder, perhaps, if anyone still plays at […]
Hal Roach and Our Gang
You’re hearing the famous theme song from the 1930s movie series that we know as “The Little Rascals,” played by a present-day Dutch dance band called the Beau Hunks.
Martin’s Big Words
You’re hearing some of the famous words of Dr. Martin Luther King from Martin’s Big Words, a recent video for young people from Weston Woods Studios.