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.
You’re hearing a little from “Nia, Nia,” a lullaby sung by Alessandra Belloni — a timeless song that’s been used for centuries to sooth restless infants and calm distressed adult nerves in the region of southern Italy called Puglia.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Purloined-Christmas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/18/2000 Purloined Christmas Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a story about something that went missing one Christmas. Casting about for an interesting children’s Christmas story, I found one in the December 1897 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Children that gives new meaning to […]
It’s that time of year again, when publishers are out to dazzle us with wonderful books for the children in our lives.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St.-Nicholas-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/6/2000 St. Nicholas Day Transcript In her lost and found essay today, Rita Smith takes us from the fourth century to the present’s presents. December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, according to legend, the date a man named Nicholas, who lived in the fourth […]
It’s National Stop the Violence Day, and John Cech is here to discuss the violence – real and imaginary – that seeps into the lives of our children.
Heather Tomasello has some tasty new books that are the perfect meal for this week.
It’s the beginning of National Children’s Book Week, and Heather Tomasello has some fuel to get us going.
It’s Halloween tonight, and if this ancient holiday is just your cup of tea and sack of candy corn, you might be interested to hear that there’s an entire CD of Halloween music waiting for your trick or treaters.
It’s Child Health Month, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story for us today about a child’s musical trip to the doctor.
