For some time we have been adding days, weeks, or months of celebration and remembrance to our national calendar, some of them amusing or frivolous, others earnest and important, others profoundly serious. Truly, as you’ll see from these stories, we do need those cultural moments to celebrate and to contemplate.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Potty-Books.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/24/2001 Potty Books Transcript Incredible as it may sound, someone has pronounced January 27th to be National “Love Your Toilet” Day. And as though to commemorate this curious occasion, there has been an outpouring of new books designed to encourage […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Coming-of-Age-in-Japan.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/17/2001 Coming of Age Day Transcript This past week in Japan, tens of thousand of young men and women will celebrate the exhilarating, frustrating, and often tumultuous journey from childhood to adulthood. It’s called Seijin-no-hi, and is a national holiday […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ML-King-Day-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2001 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Transcript It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, a time for tributes to this remarkable leader and peace-maker. One of the forms those tributes has taken is in the dozens of books for children and young people that […]
Reaching potentials: Shelley Fraser Mickle has some thoughts on that for us today.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/January.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/1/2001 January Transcript “Here is January. All hail to thee.” Thus begins the writer of Peter Parley’s Annual for the year 1856, brimming with good cheer and optimism. The writers of children’s literature have taken numerous opportunities over the years to celebrate January by […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Whiners-Day.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello Air Date 12/26/2000 National Whiner’s Day Transcript Today is National Whiner’s Day — sadly, often an all too appropriate name for the day after Christmas, when sometimes even the most thoughtful presents only seem to elicit groans of discontent. There’s a long history in children’s books […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Best-Present.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/25/2000 christmas gifts on white background The Best Present Transcript In 1958, I was an awkward fourteen-year old whose cat had just been run over. I’d found that cat when I was eight years old, and it had been the cat of my […]
Hanukkah begins tomorrow, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story for us today to mark the holiday.
The holidays are upon us, and Koren Stembridge has a recommendation for a gift for the teen girls in your life: a magazine subscription.
