Stories
Puzzles
It's National Game and Puzzle Week, and that has Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering a family enigma.
The King of Cool
Here's a new fable from the award-winning, Atlanta-based storyteller and actor Barry Stewart Mann.
Rubber Bands
It’s the anniversary of the invention of the rubber band this month, and that has given some stretch to today’s story from Shelley Fraser Mickle.
Captain Cauliflower
It's National School Lunch Week, a good time to keep an eye out for some sea-faring vegetables, like Barry Stewart Mann's Captain Cauliflower.
“Big and Tol”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Big-and-Tol-A-Barry-Stewart-Mann-Story.mp3 Author Barry Stewart Mann Air Date 7/21/2005 “Big and Tol” Transcript Barry Stewart Mann has been thinking a great deal about the question of tolerance — here’s his latest story for young people about that pressing subject. Brief sound clip
Sherman’s Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Shermans-Baby-A-Barry-Stewart-Mann-Story.mp3 Author Barry Stewart Mann Air Date 6/17/2005 Sherman’s Baby Transcript The soldier stepped away from the cannon, awaited the command, then pulled the cord. The report sounded across the valley: “Boom!” There among the crowd, two little boys, Troy and Adam, looked around amazed – “Wow” – while their […]
First Poems
Remember those first poems we wrote in elementary school? Shelley Fraser Mickle does.
The Ta Yi Zone
Today, Barry Stewart Mann has a story for us about that linguistic genius, the young child - his young child.
The Butterfly Dance
Barry Stewart Mann always finds a way to make his stories dance. Just listen.
Up on the Moon
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Up-On-the-Moon.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/20/2004 Up on the Moon Transcript I have always felt lucky to remember the first moon landing. At the time, I was only three and a half. I suppose that if I had been born just a few months later, I could have missed […]