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.
- Between the Lines of Animated Films
October 26, 2004
We don’t usually think about the presence of ideas of race and racial supremacy even in apparently progressive animated movies. Read more "Between the Lines of Animated Films" - Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival
October 25, 2004
That’s the opening from The Magic Lion, an animated film by Charles Githinji, from the National Film Board of Canada, which has a long tradition of producing some of the most original animated movies in recent times. Read more "Chicago Children’s ... - Lucy Fitch Perkins
October 21, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Lucky-Fitch-Perkins.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/21/2004 Lucy Fitch Perkins Transcript Lucy Fitch Perkins was born in 1865, attended art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, ... - Crockett Johnson and His Purple Crayon
October 20, 2004
You’re hearing the opening for the Weston Woods animated film version of Crockett Johnson’s well-known 1955 children’s book, Harold and the Purple Crayon. Read more "Crockett Johnson and His Purple Crayon" - Whale Talk
October 19, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Chris-Crutchers-Whale-Talk.mp3 Author Julie Sinn Air Date 10/19/2004 Whale Talk Transcript When Chris Crutcher writes a young adult novel, he draws on his personal experience as a family therapist ... - Graphic Novels
October 18, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Graphic-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/18/2004 Graphic Novels Transcript It’s the beginning of Teen Read Week, which isn’t such a contradiction in terms as it may seem. ... - So Early in the Morning
October 15, 2004
We have just listened to the grandchildren of the legendary singer and musician, Robert Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers. Read more "So Early in the Morning" - Keba, Keba
October 14, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Takishi-Murakamis-Super-Flat-Keba-Keba.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 10/14/2004 Keba, Keba Transcript Keba Keba is Japanese for Gaudy Tawdry, and it is the title of artist Takashi Murakami’s first picture ... - Greasy Kids Stuff
October 13, 2004
If you’re tired of hearing the same old, same old, super-sweetly processed children’s music played by grown men dressed up as lip-syncing pirates, then just maybe your family is ready for the music you’ll find on Greasy Kid Stuff 2 ... - School Lunch Week: Pizza
October 12, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Lunch-Week-Pizza.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/12/2004 School Lunch Week: Pizza Transcript All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of ... - On This Spot
October 11, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Susan-Goodmans-On-This-Spot-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/2004 On This Spot Transcript As a graduate student, I studied with the poet, Charles Olson, who, among many other things — ... - In Utero: Music For My Baby
October 8, 2004
That’s part of the lovely Andantino from Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor. You can hear the rest of this gentle reverie on a new CD called In Utero, for parents and their as yet unborn but still attentively ... - Mingzhou Zhang and The Seed of the Willow
October 7, 2004
This past year, Susan Raab visited the fair and spoke with a number of children’s book people from around the world, among them Mingzhou Zhang, who is organizing a major international conference about children’s books in Beijing in 2006. ... - Carl Moon
October 6, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/illustrator-Carl-Moon.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/6/2004 Carl Moon Transcript As a young boy growing up in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl Moon loved to read stories about Native Americans ... - Conversations with Children About Race
October 4, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Conversation-with-Children-About-Race.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/4/2004 Conversations with Children About Race Transcript Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on ... - A License for The Month of the Dinosaur
October 1, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s ... - Caribbean Playground
September 29, 2004
We’re in the Caribbean today, listening to Marlene Dorcena, the Haitian-born singer, with a traditional folksong about a Panama hat that keeps falling off a man’s head. This delightful tune is on a new CD compilation from Putumayo Kids called ... - Catch the Moon
September 24, 2004
That’s Lisa Loeb, singing about “Butterflies” on her new CD for children, Catch the Moon. Read more "Catch the Moon" - T. S. Eliot
September 23, 2004
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/T-S-Eliot-That-Ol-Possum.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/23/2004 T. S. Eliot Transcript T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the ... - Tolkien Week, Symphonically
September 21, 2004
By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which ...