Despite the disappearance of recess from the daily school schedule of our children, nearly everyone agrees that play is an essential part of a child’s life. In fact, the cultural historian, Johan Huizinga goes much further when he writes: “You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marketing-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/29/1999 Marketing Childhood Transcript It seems that each week, in major newspapers or magazines, someone is doing an article about how much money is to be made on the merchandise of childhood. This fall alone, we’ve had the Harry Potter books phenomenon — a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Crossword-Puzzles.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/21/1999 First Crossword Puzzles Transcript According to the Oxford Guide to Word Games, the crossword puzzle is “the most popular and widespread word game in the world.” It was invented by a journalist named Arthur Wynne who published the first crossword in The New […]
As curator of a historical children’s literature collection, Rita Smith comes across many things youngsters stuck into pages of a book. Today, she discusses a recent find: baseball cards.