Maurice Sendak’s Birthday
That’s Angela Coin, belting out part of the familiar title song for the 1981 Broadway version of Maurice Sendak’s “Really Rosie,” set to Carole King’s music.
Anne Frank
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-Frank.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 6/9/2000 Anne Frank Transcript Anne Frank’s diary was an assignment in my 8th grade English class. Each day we would discuss her writings I remember finding her so remarkable, brave, and other-worldly and at the same time, she was EXACTLY like me. Our class […]
Summer Camp 100 Years Ago
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Years-Ago-in-St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2000 Summer Camp 100 Years Ago Transcript “The hurried steps of the father descending the stairs were heard through the closed door. The son turned away to hide the working of his face and examined the pictures on the wall through a film of […]
Ida B. Wells
Here’s Jim Haskins with a review of Judith and Dennis Fradin’s Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Frank L. Baum
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/L-Frank-Baum.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2000 Frank L. Baum Transcript It’s the real wizard of Oz’s birthday today. Born in 1856, L. Frank Baum was the frail son of well-to-do and indulgent parents who lived on an picture book, gentleman’s farm near Syracuse, New York. Growing up, Baum always […]
Gelett Burgess’ Goops
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goops.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/11/2000 Gelett Burgess’ Goops Transcript Today we are celebrating Etiquette Day. Multitudes of etiquette books have been written over the years for children. Most of the early ones took themselves very seriously, but in 1900, Gellett Burgess wrote and illustrated a book entitled Goops […]
James M. Barrie
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Barrie.mp3 Author Rita Smith with Fiona Barnes Air Date 5/8/2000 James M. Barrie Transcript James M. Barrie was born May 9, 1860. Donna R. White, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggests that, “J. M. Barrie’s importance to children’s literature can be summed up in one name: Peter Pan.”(1) […]
Palmer Cox’s Birthday
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Palmer-Cox.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/25/2000 Palmer Cox’s Birthday Transcript This week we celebrate the birthday of Palmer Cox, one of the most popular American writers for children in the last two decades of the 19th century. Do you know what he is famous for? His elfin creatures once […]
Roman Vishniac
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Roman-Vishniac.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/19/2000 Roman Vishniac Transcript Perhaps it is the first warm day of spring, and the boys in the picture have pulled off their shirts and rolled up their trousers, forming themselves in a circle to to play a ball game–it could be dodge ball. […]
Wordsworth’s Child
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wordsworths-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/7/2000 Wordsworth’s Child Transcript It’s the birthday today of William Wordsworth, who was born in 1770, and was one of the leading British Romantic poets. He wrote a poem called “The Rainbow” in 1802 that, in some respects, has shaped our thinking about childhood […]