Mildred Taylor
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]
The Afterlife of Edward Gorey
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Gorey-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/23/2001 The Afterlife of Edward Gorey Transcript Edward Gorey confessed that he was afraid of being remembered only as a morbid Charles Adams type. In life, Gorey was much more than that – a voracious reader who could speak with authority on any number […]
Robinson Crusoe Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Robinson-Crusoe.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/21/2001 Robison Crusoe Transcript February is Robinson Crusoe month, named in honor of the anniversary of the rescue on February 1, 1709, of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who had been put ashore in September 1704, on an uninhabited island at his own request […]
Inventor’s Day Pop-Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventors-Day-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/12/2001 Inventor’s Day Pop-Up Transcript It’s Thomas A. Edison’s birthday today, and it’s also Inventor’s Day — the perfect time for a terrific new book, Robert Crowther’s Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions. Each of the five modern rooms in the book is filled with […]
Edgar Allen Poe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Allen-Poe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/31/2001 Edgar Allen Poe Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Edgar Allen Poe, and you’ve been hearing Ted Jacobs’ fine musical interpretation of one of Poe’s poems, “Alone,” from a CD called “The Days Gone By — Songs of the American Poets.” This […]
Nelly Bly
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Nelly-Bly.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello (read by Rita Smith) Air Date 1/25/2001 Nelly Bly Transcript On this day in 1889 Nellie Bly, a twenty-five year old reporter for The New York World received a hero’s welcome in Jersey City. A crowd of over 300 gathered to greet her, cannons boomed, and […]
Potty Books
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 […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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 […]
Hugh Lofting
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hugh-Lofting.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/12/2001 Hugh Lofting Transcript This weekend is the late Hugh Lofting’s birthday. Lofting, who was born in Maidenhead England in 1886, holds a special place in the annals of children’s literature. He is author of the wildly popular Doctor Doolittle book series. Although Lofting […]