Pablo Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Perhaps that can be done by taking children to art museums, showing them great art, and, most importantly, giving children the space, the materials, and the encouragement to make their own art.
- Yeehaw Junction
March 15, 2006
Lots of cars are on the interstates these days, heading down to Florida for an early taste of the warm weather to come up north. And that has Barry Stewart Mann thinking about an eventful, or should we say a ... - Jack Johnson’s Curious George
March 13, 2006
It’s passing strange and a minor miracle in the annals of music for children’s films that this totally irresistible set of soul-tapping, acoustic delights would be teamed up with the new animated film version of those classic children’s stories about ... - Banana Slug String Band
March 10, 2006
That’s just a little tune about six-legged insects from “No Bones Within.” It’s on one of the band’s nine CDs called Singing in Our Garden. Read more "Banana Slug String Band" - Richard Louv, The Last Child in the Woods
March 9, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Richard-Louv’s-The-Last-Child-in-the-Woods.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/9/2006 Richard Louv, The Last Child in the Woods Transcript Remember when our parents used to tell us to run outside to ... - RFK, Jr.’s Saint Francis
March 8, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/RFKs-St-Francis-of-Assisi.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2006 RFK, Jr.’s Saint Francis Transcript Sometimes it’s less a matter of our choosing the subjects that we write about, than it ... - 19th Century Environmental Books
March 7, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/19th-Century-Science-Books.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/7/2006 19th Century Environmental Books Transcript Beginning in the late 1700s, social, moral and particularly religious precepts began to be woven into ... - Suni Paz Sings Songs for the Playground
March 3, 2006
That’s Suni Paz, the well known Latin American singer, with part of “Llega la Manana,” a song about waking up and getting dressed, and going to school — in short, about a day in the life of a kid. Read more ... - Youth Art Month: Frank Remkiewicz Interview
March 2, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Youth-Art-Month-Frank-Remwicz.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/2/2006 Youth Art Month: Frank Remkiewicz Interview Transcript It’s Youth Art Month, and, while he was visiting schools in our area, we ... - Sad-Faced Boy
February 21, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Arna-Bontemps-The-Sad-Faced-Boy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/21/2006 Sad-Faced Boy Transcript “That year, our first in northern Alabama, we lived beside a country road that was so red it ... - Dan Zanes Rocks
February 17, 2006
That’s Dan Zanes and the Rocket Ship Singers with Frank Loesser’s old standard, “Bushel and a Peck” from the CD, Rocket Ship Beach. Read more "Dan Zanes Rocks" - Parenthood
February 16, 2006
Here’s the next installment in Lola Haskins’ cycle of poems about parenting and grandparenting. Read more "Parenthood" - The Tenth Rasa
February 15, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Tenth-Rasa-Nonsense-from-India.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/15/2006 The Tenth Rasa Transcript Hollywood is fond of images of heroic nutty professors, of inventors of flubber and of academics who possess ... - For the Love of a Sponge
February 13, 2006
It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow, but today Barry Stewart Mann is visiting the ocean floor and Smooshy the Sea Sponge. Read more "For the Love of a Sponge" - One World, One Kid
February 10, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/One-World-One-Kid-Music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/10/2006 One World, One Kid Transcript Here’s an idea for a children’s world music radio program. Let a child make the selections ... - The World is Round
February 7, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Gertrude-Steins-The-World-is-Round.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/7/2006 The World is Round Transcript Gertrude Stein’s first book for children, The World Is Round, published in 1939, is quite a departure ... - World Party
February 3, 2006
It’s from a new CD from Music for Little People called World Party. And it takes the family from Morocco to New Zealand, from the Caribbean to Central Asia. Read more "World Party" - The Little House
February 2, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-House.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/2/2006 The Little House Transcript In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book ... - Kids on the Move
February 1, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Going-Places.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2006 Kids on the Move Transcript Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention ... - Conversation with Robert Sabuda
January 31, 2006
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Joseph-Sabuda-and-his-Amazing-Pop-Up-Books-1.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 1/31/2006 Conversation with Robert Sabuda Transcript As part of her on-going series of interviews with children’s book authors and illustrators, Susan Raab ... - Too Many Attorneys
January 26, 2006
Today, Barry Stewart Mann has a new story about a sad fact of life for nearly half of America’s children. Read more "Too Many Attorneys"