Native American Day with Joseph Bruchac
You have been listening to a Seneca Indian canoe song, as performed by Joseph Bruchac, Native American storyteller – and author of more than seventy books for adults and children.
Folktales for National Grandparents Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Folktales-for-National-Grandparents-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/5/2003 Folktales for National Grandparents Day Transcript It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and the well-known storyteller, Jane Yolen, a grandparent herself, has offered a present specifically for grandsons, in her new collection of folktales: Mightier Than the Sword, World Folktales for Strong Boys. These […]
Labor Day with Ella Jenkins
That’s Ella Jenkins, one of this country’s great folksingers for young people, with a nursery rhyme especially for Labor Day.
The Engine of Invention
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Engine-of-Invention.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/11/2003 The Engine of Invention Transcript We Americans pride ourselves on being a nation of tinkerers, folks who always seemed to be out in the barn inventing things — like the telephone, airplanes, or the computer. To spark this inventive spirit in young people, […]
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 […]
Books for Youth Art Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Youth-Art-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/31/2003 Books for Youth Art Month Transcript It’s Youth Art Month, and given that it’s also Women’s History Month, we thought we might combine these two celebrations in books about women artists. Robyn Montana Turner’s series, “Portraits of Women Artists for Children” is an […]
Books for Women’s History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Womens-History-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/3/2003 Books for Women’s History Month Transcript One of the best places to start a young person’s journey to find out about women and their many roles in history would be the series of books by Fiona Macdonald called “The […]
The Egg Game
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Egg-Game.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 2/11/2003 The Egg Game Transcript We had a visit a few weeks ago from the Egg Man — no, not a poultryman or the character from the Beetles’ song, “I Am the Walrus,” but Erich Jonas, who’s invented something that he calls the Egg […]
New Years Babies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Years-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/31/2002 Image from Winsor McCay’s “Little Nemo” New Years Babies Transcript One of the fascinating figures who arrives at the turn of every new year is a little child who appears to take over the reins of life from an elderly figure, old father […]
The Other Nutcracker
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Other-Nutcracker.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/23/2002 The Other Nutcracker Transcript Wooden nutcrackers arose from the old German tradition of hanging nuts dipped in goldleaf on a Christmas Tree. Something equally decorative was needed to open these festive nuts. From the fanciful, functional figurines created in the Saxony region of […]