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.
- Kids Can Press Poetry
April 18, 2007
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 ... - Katherine Patterson
April 12, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Katherine-Patterson.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/12/2007 Katherine Patterson Transcript Katherine Paterson is one of the most celebrated of writers for children, having received numerous awards for her ... - A. A. Milne’s Poetry
April 11, 2007
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 ... - African Children’s Choir
April 6, 2007
That’s the African Children’s Choir with their glad spin on the ancient African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Read more "African Children’s Choir" - Singing Chaucer
April 4, 2007
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 ... - Young Andersen
April 2, 2007
This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805. Read more "Young Andersen" - Singing Along with John Lithgow
March 30, 2007
That’s John Lithgow with the chorus for the famous Jimmy Durante number “Inka Dinka Doo.” It’s on a new CD of upbeat sing-along songs for kids and their families called The Sunny Side of the Street. Read more "Singing Along ... - Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots”
March 27, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Goodalls-Roots-and-Shoots.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/27/2007 Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots” Transcript You could say that Jane Goodall’s great adventure began in 1936 ... - Bright Spaces 2
March 23, 2007
That’s Jerry Garcia and David Grisman with their nonsense song, “Hopalong Peter.” It’s on a new CD called Bright Spaces 2, a compilation of songs from growing artists who are redeveloping that new/old genre that’s called family music. Read more "Bright ... - The Dent in the Door
March 22, 2007
Sometimes it takes just a little thing – like a dent in the door – to remind us (and Barry Stewart Mann) of our oh-so-human foibles. Read more "The Dent in the Door" - “Spring Awakenings”
March 21, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Awakenings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2007 Spring Awakenings Transcript Spring arrives today and, with it, all sorts of stirrings. One of them is a new production of ... - Anna Sewell
March 20, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anna-Sewell.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/20/2007 Anna Sewell Transcript Anna Sewell wrote only one book in her lifetime, Black Beauty. Sewell was raised in a Quaker household by a ... - Lullabies for St. Patrick
March 16, 2007
You’re hearing a portion from “My Gysgi, Di Maban” sung by the Welsh choral group, Plethyn, from Celtic Lullaby, a new CD from Elipses Arts. Read more "Lullabies for St. Patrick" - The Little People
March 15, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-People.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/15/2007 The Little People Transcript As we head towards St. Patrick’s Day and fanciful images of Leprechauns begin appearing in television commercials ... - Dr. Seuss
March 1, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Doctor-Seuss.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/1/2007 Dr. Seuss Transcript Someone once said that a good writer, whether for children or adults, has one story, which he keeps ... - The Fingers and the Thumb
February 28, 2007
Here’s Barry Stewart Mann with a story from Africa about how our hands came to be how they are. Read more "The Fingers and the Thumb" - Oxford and Wonderland
February 27, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oxford-and-Wonderland.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/27/2007 Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford and Wonderland Transcript When one thinks of the world of children’s literature, both in ... - Teenagers and Andy Hardy
February 21, 2007
That’s the young Andy Rooney hoping for a kiss from the young Ann Rutherford in the 1938 film, Love Finds Andy Hardy. Read more "Teenagers and Andy Hardy" - First Books for African American Children
February 20, 2007
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Books-for-African-American-Children.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/20/2007 First Books Transcript Before the 1950s, there was very little that an African American child could look at or read that reflected ... - A Belated Musical Valentine
February 16, 2007
The two-man rock group, They Might Be Giants, has made clever, vocabulary- and imagination- expanding grooves a signature of both their music for adults and for children. Their valentine to high-energy optimism that you’ve just heard is called “Happy Doesn’t ...