Thanksgiving Lullabies
Imagine having this on the CD player in the car, as you’re chasing around from store to store with the kids, on the busiest shopping day of the year, when we’re all obliged to be out and doing.
Thanksgiving and History
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-some-holiday-history.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 11/23/2006 Thanksgiving and History Transcript As we celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s difficult to imagine what that first celebration was like for the Allertons, Hopkinses, and other families who broke bread together on that autumn day nearly four hundred years ago. How do we even know […]
Children’s Book Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Childrens-Book-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/13/2006 Children’s Book Week Transcript This is National Children’s Book Week, which has been brought to us every year since 1919 by the Children’s Book Council. This year’s theme is “More Books Please,” and in the Book Week materials that it makes available — […]
Happy Pepero Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Pepero-Day.mp3 Author Stephanie Boluk Air Date 11/9/2006 Happy Pepero Day Transcript Relationships and love are not taken lightly in South Korea. There are over twenty holidays devoted to celebrating one’s affections for family, friends, and beloveds. For starters, the 14th of each month is set aside for sweethearts. Also, just […]
Halloween In Salem
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halloween-in-Salem.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/30/2006 Halloween in Salem Transcript New England celebrates Halloween. I mean, it really celebrates it. And for good reason. There are more ghosts per capita in the New England states than anywhere else. I once spoke with a filmmaker who was going to do […]
Talking with M. T. Anderson
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Talking-with-MT-Anderson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 10/19/2006 M. T. Anderson Transcript It’s Teen Read Week, and Recess correspondent Susan Raab spoke with M. T. Anderson, the author of one of the most thought-provoking young adult novels to come out in recent years — Feed — which was a finalist for the National […]
Teen Read Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-2.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 10/16/2006 Teen Read Week Transcript The American Library Association is “acting up” these days in celebration of Teen Read Week. This year’s theme, “Get Active @ Your Library,” is meant to encourage teens not only to become more frequent library visitors but also to […]
International Youth Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-UNs-First-International-Youth-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/10/2006 International Youth Day Transcript Here’s an astonishing statistic: about one sixth of the world’s six billion people — that’s a billion — are between the ages of 15 and 24 years old. They represent, according to UNESCO, “the largest generation of adolescents in […]
Inventing Away in August
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventing-Away-in-August-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/7/2006 Inventing Away in August Transcript It’s National Inventors’ Month, and my guess is that’s because August is the peak month for vacations. And if you’re not traveling, it’s the perfect time for fixing things, which always means improvising, and that, as we know, […]
Mother’s Day Music
That’s the Chicago Children’s Choir from their lovely CD called Open Your Heart, which gathers together a group of songs from around the world.