Magazines
Children’s Favorites
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Favorite-Books-a-Century-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/6/2006 Children’s Favorites Transcript These days, a stroll past the desk in the children’s department of any public library will provide you with a list of “Best Books for Young Readers” or a few minutes spent online will lead to an abundance of good […]
Kind News
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/22Kind-News22.mp3 Author Seth Blazer Air Date 9/21/2006 Kind News Transcript “Why did the trash can go on a diet?” The answer: because “It wanted to reduce its waste!” This is just one of the many clever yet eco-friendly riddles that one might find in the award-winning publication Kind News. “What […]
School Lunches – Back in the Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/School-Lunches-Back-in-the-Day-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/14/2006 School Lunches Transcript In the March 1877 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, the editor asked her young readers to write to her and describe “what you ordinarily take to school for your noon feeding.” She had noticed that one […]
Ranger Rick
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ranger-RIck-Magazine.mp3 Author Lisa Dusenberry Air Date 8/16/2006 Ranger Rick Transcript Have you ever wondered whether insects get sick? Or what the world’s strongest animal is? Well, according to the National Wildlife Federation’s Ranger Rick Magazine, insects get sick just like people, from a variety of viruses and bacteria, and the world’s strongest animal […]
Mad Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mad-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2005 Mad Magazine Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Bill Gaines, the publisher of one of the edgiest institutions in American childhood, Mad Magazine. Since its first appearance in comic book form in the fall of 1952, Mad’s brand of outlandish, satiric humor was […]
The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Thanksgiving-Dinner-That-Flew.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/25/2004 The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away Transcript “A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away” is a poignant story about a cranky gander and a beloved son lost at sea that appeared in the juvenile periodical St. Nicholas in November, 1883. Hester is a young girl arriving […]
St. Nicholas and Poetry
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Young-Poets-in-St-Nicholas-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/13/2004 St. Nicholas and Poetry Transcript In 1899, the editors of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls established monthly competitions in various arts, including poetry. The winning entries were published in the magazine, in a column called “The St. Nicholas League.” Each monthly competition had […]
Santa and the Airship
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Christmas-Mistake.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/5/2003 Santa and the Airship Transcript For hundreds of years, the fastest most efficient way to get around in the winter was the sleigh and for hundreds of years Santa has depended on a sleigh to get toys to all the good boys and […]
Word Dance
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Word-Dance-A-Creative-Kids-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/20/2003 Word Dance Transcript If you have an aspiring young writer in your household, who’s been churning out stories and poems all winter, and is yearning to see her work in print, you might want to find out more about Word Dance. It’s a non-profit magazine […]
America’s First Children’s Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Americas-First-Childrens-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/5/2003 America’s First Children’s Magazine Transcript In 1826 Lydia Maria Child founded the Juvenile Miscellany which has been called the “first children’s magazine in America.” Child’s biographer, Carolyn Karcher, writes that Child “helped shape children’s literature into a powerful medium for socializing the young into the […]