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.
- Edith Nesbit
August 9, 2000
Here’s Rita Smith with this week’s Rediscovery about E. Nesbitt. Read more "Edith Nesbit" - Green Bean Thanksgiving
August 7, 2000
The green beans in New England are ready for harvesting. Time for another story from the late Princess Redwing, recorded in 1981, about the third Thanksgiving in the Native American calendar to give thanks for the green bean. Read more ... - A Dinosaur Named Sue
August 4, 2000
Today, Koren Stembridge on the Internet is talking about dinosaurs. Read more "A Dinosaur Named Sue" - The Boy’s Account of It
August 3, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Boys-Account-of-It.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/3/2000 The Boy’s Account of It Transcript In 1909, when he was eight years old, William Culver Roberts, Jr., whose nickname ... - Candy Culture
August 2, 2000
If you haven’t visited a full-service candy counter lately, you probably aren’t aware that old-fashioned things like lollipops or chocolate bars are simply passé. Read more "Candy Culture" - Mosquitoes
August 1, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mosquitoes.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 8/1/2000 Mosquitos Transcript This is National Mosquito Week, which I don’t think means that we are supposed to stop work and ... - Antoine Saint-Exupery
July 31, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Exupery.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/31/2000 Antoine Saint-Exupery Transcript It’s the hundredth anniversary this month of the birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the French writer who gave ... - Lulie the Iceberg
July 27, 2000
You’re hearing a small section from the first, mood-setting movement of the American composer Jeffrey Stock’s music for Lulie the Iceberg. Read more "Lulie the Iceberg" - Bert’s Birthday
July 26, 2000
That’s Bert from Sesame Street, played by Frank Oz, singing his signature song, “Doing the Pigeon,” just in time for his birthday today. Read more "Bert’s Birthday" - Hot Dogs
July 25, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hot-Dogs.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 7/25/2000 Hot Dogs Transcript I can’t remember the first time I ate a hot dog. But I can remember the first ... - The Pied Piper’s Anniversary
July 24, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pied-Piper.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/24/2000 Pied Piper Transcript The Pied Piper of Hamelin, that wonderful narrative poem for children written by Robert Browning, was first published July 22, ... - Music for Traveling
July 21, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-Travelling.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/21/2000 Music for Traveling Transcript It may be a really risky programming decision, and you may get hooted at by every in ... - Gabriel Schwartzman
July 20, 2000
Today, we are talking with Gabriel Schwartzman, who at the time he accomplished it, was the youngest person to become an international Chess Grandmaster. He won the US Open Championship in 1996 and shared the title in 1999. He told ... - Voices
July 19, 2000
Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for us. Read more "Voices" - St. Nicholas in July
July 18, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Nicholas-1-1.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/18/2000 St. Nicholas in July Transcript As editor of the 19th century juvenile magazine, St. Nicholas, Mary Mapes Dodge wrote an essay ... - The Catcher in the Rye
July 17, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Catcher-in-the-Rye.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/17/2000 The Catcher in the Rye Transcript There really isn’t a sound bite that we can offer you to introduce J. D. ... - I. B. Singer
July 14, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/IB-Singer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/14/2000 I. B. Singer Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author who, ... - Woody Guthrie
July 13, 2000
That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s. Read more "Woody Guthrie" - Johanna Spyri
July 12, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johanna-Spyri.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/12/2000 Johanna Spyri Transcript Johanna Spyri, (Spee-ree) the author of the children’s classic, Heidi, was born July 12, 1827. Heidi, of course, ... - Boredom
July 11, 2000
Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about one of the by-products of summer for children: boredom. Read more "Boredom"