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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.


  • The Remarkable Tale of Chicken Little

    September 14, 2000

    The Remarkable Tale of Chicken Little
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicken-Little.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/14/2000 Chicken Little Transcript One hundred and sixty-six years ago this past weekend, a printer from Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Greene Chandler, ...
  • Good Manners Month

    September 13, 2000

    Good Manners Month
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/13/2000 Good Manners Month Transcript September is Children’s Good Manners Month, and Rita Smith has a most polite rediscovery for us: September ...
  • Books for Boys

    September 12, 2000

    Books for Boys
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Boys.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/12/2000 Books for Boys Transcript There has been a wave of books and public discussions in recent years about the importance of ...
  • BJ Pinchbeck

    September 11, 2000

    BJ Pinchbeck
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/BJ-Pinchbeck.mp3 Author Lauren Bradway Air Date 9/11/2000 BJ Pinchbeck Transcript With the children back in school, and the assignments already piling up, one of the web sites ...
  • American High

    September 6, 2000

    American High
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/American-High.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/6/2000 American High Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet, with a review of one of the latest reality-based shows – ...
  • Olympics

    September 1, 2000

    Olympics
    Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet with some online resources to help you prepare for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Read more "Olympics"
  • Maria Montessori

    August 31, 2000

    Maria Montessori
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maria-Montessori.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/31/2000 Maria Montessori Transcript It’s Maria Montessori’s birthday today. She was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy; and by the time ...
  • Alicia Nitecki

    August 30, 2000

    Alicia Nitecki
    Today, noted scholar Alicia Nitecki tells us about her favorite book as a child. Read more "Alicia Nitecki"
  • Family Fun Month

    August 29, 2000

    Family Fun Month
    Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle, still having fun. Read more "Family Fun Month"
  • Back to School Sounds

    August 28, 2000

    Back to School Sounds
    Here’s how we’re waking up at our house to start the new school year — with the Brazilian singer Nazare Pereira singing “Bonjour Pra Voce” — a good morning song that goes well with corn flakes or scrambled eggs — ...
  • Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts

    August 25, 2000

    Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bernsteins-Young-Peoples-Concerts.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/25/2000 Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Transcript In 1958, the American composer and conductor, the late Leonard Bernstein, whose birthday it is today, ...
  • ODC

    August 24, 2000

    ODC
    Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ODC.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/24/2000 ODC Transcript This is “Recess!” and this is John Cech. We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in ...
  • American Dance Week

    August 23, 2000

    American Dance Week
    Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering that’s dancing. Read more "American Dance Week"
  • Movie Sites

    August 18, 2000

    Movie Sites
    Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet. Read more "Movie Sites"
  • Dragonflies the Baby Cries

    August 17, 2000

    Dragonflies the Baby Cries
    That’s the Alloy Orchestra from Cambridge, Massachussetts, providing the soundtrack for a new movie, “Dragonflies the Baby Cries,” a short, around ten minute, nearly silent film by Jane Gilooly about children and their magical, secret lives. Read more "Dragonflies the ...
  • National Smile Week

    August 16, 2000

    National Smile Week
    Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for National Smile Week. Read more "National Smile Week"
  • Walter Crane

    August 15, 2000

    Walter Crane
    Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane. Read more "Walter Crane"
  • Buster Brown

    August 14, 2000

    Buster Brown
    Here’s John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown. Read more "Buster Brown"
  • Washington Tour

    August 11, 2000

    Washington Tour
    Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home. Read more "Washington Tour"
  • Kid Hoboes

    August 10, 2000

    Kid Hoboes
    That’s Woody Guthrie’s son, Arlo, singing his haunting “Hobo’s Lullaby” in honor of the National Hobo Convention, which takes place this week in Britt, Iowa. Read more "Kid Hoboes"