Poetry
Another Planet
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Another-Planet.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 7/24/2007 Another Planet Transcript When my children were little, I was convinced that each stage was the most adorable yet and at each birthday I wanted to put bricks on their heads to stop them right there. Of course, they grew up anyway, and […]
Liking Poetry
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Liking-Poems.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 7/12/2007 Liking Poetry Transcript Little ones’ preferences in food have nothing to do with “should.” Take popsicles and corn pops and full sugar baby-yo. Those, Cora likes. Or take spinach and scrambled eggs. Those, she doesn’t. And why or why not, who cares? Now […]
Jump Rope
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jump-Rope.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/25/2007 Jump Rope Transcript Starting in second or third grade and all the way into middle school, we girls used to play jump rope at recess. Two of us would warm the rope up by swinging it, while the rest of us got into […]
Kids Can Press Poetry
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Can-Poetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/18/2007 Kids Can Press Poetry Transcript Over the past few years, a Canadian publishing house called Kids Can has brought out a series of books, each containing a single narrative poem. They’re all poems you will have heard of, if not at some point […]
A. A. Milne’s Poetry
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/AA-Milnes-Poetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/11/2007 A. A. Milne’s Poetry Transcript Some poetry goes with kids as naturally as peanut butter goes with jelly. I remember the special delight I used to take in the poems in A.A. Milne’s When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six because they just seemed […]
Singing Chaucer
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Singing-Chauncer.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/4/2007 Singing Chaucer Transcript A few years ago, my writer-in-the-schools gig involved a middle school in a suburban neighborhood. My charges for that session were mostly kids who’d been bussed in from the poor side of town, whose teacher told me she hadn’t been […]
Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Lear-Book-of-Nonsense.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/8/2007 Book of Nonsense Transcript One hundred and fifty-five years ago today, in London, at 26 Haymarket, the publisher Thomas McLean released a curious little book. It was entitled, The Book of Nonsense and the author, according to the cover, was a certain Derry Down Derry. […]
José Marti
Today, Barry Stewart Mann is remembering the great Cuban poet and national hero José Marti and the works he created for children.
Camp Crystal Lake
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Camp-Crystal.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 1/3/2007 Camp Crystal Lake Transcript As soon as our daughter was big enough, which to us meant the summer she was 8, we sent her to Camp Crystal Lake. It’s only a 45 minute drive from where we were living then, and, because it’s […]
Ogden Nash
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ogden-Nash.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/23/2006 Ogden Nash Transcript At one time, Ogden Nash “was America’s most popular and most frequently-quoted contemporary poet.” His loyal followers were legion, and his light verse was widely visible in popular magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker. Between 1925 and 1971, he […]