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.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
July 10, 2000
That’s Donna Lynne Coulter, Medicine Man Ya Ya, and friends singing the opening for their tribute to the great American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, whose birthday it is today. Read more "Mary McLeod Bethune" - Leo@Fergusrules.com
July 7, 2000
Leo@Fergusrules.com Transcript Each spring the local high school sends me a summer reading list, a thoughtful reminder that school vacation is just around the corner. The week after the bell rings, for the end of the year, my library ... - Chicken Run
July 6, 2000
You’re hearing a few pecks of the action from “Chicken Run,” a new film by the studio (Aardman Animations) and the director (Nick Park) that gave us “Wallace and Gromit.” Read more "Chicken Run" - P. T. Barnum and the Circus
July 5, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Circus.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/5/2000 P. T. Barnum and the Circus Transcript July 5 is the birthday of P.T. Barnum, the man who in the 1870’s ... - America the Beautiful
July 4, 2000
That’s the Boston-based storyteller, Brother Blue, with a few notes of his version of one of America’s most moving national songs, a song that some have called the unofficial second national anthem. Read more "America the Beautiful" - Elvis for Babies
July 3, 2000
You’re hearing a little from one of Elvis Presley’s monumental hits, “Don’t Be Cruel,” on a recent CD for very young children called “Elvis for Babies.” Read more "Elvis for Babies" - Amelia’s Journal
June 30, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Amelias-Notebooks.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/30/2000 Amelia’s Notebooks Transcript There’s a wonderful series of books for girls ages 8 and up by Marissa Moss, about a kid named ... - Waiting for Harry Potter
June 29, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Waiting-for-Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/29/2000 Waiting for Harry Potter Transcript There are such things as Harmonic Convergences in the book world–when the forces–a fine book, an excited ... - Mary Ann Eaverly
June 28, 2000
In our ongoing series about children’s books that have mattered to people throughout their lives, we asked Mary Ann Eaverly, a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Florida whose specialty is archaic Greek sculpture, about her favorite children’s ... - The First Newbery Award
June 27, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/1st-Newberry-Award.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/27/2000 The First Newbery Award Transcript On June 27, 1922, at the annual American Library Association meetings in Detroit, Michigan, in a ... - Edward Gorey
June 26, 2000
That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden ... - The Storyteller
June 23, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Storyteller.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/23/2000 The Storyteller Transcript If you thought there was a familiar look to last month’s television movie of the Arabian Nights, you’d ... - Louise Bechtel
June 22, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Louise-Bechtel-1-1.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/22/2000 Louise Bechtel Transcript On June 22, 1919, George Brett, president of Macmillan Publishing Company, called Louise Seaman Bechtel, an employee in ... - Girls’ Internet Sites
June 21, 2000
Here’s Koren Stembridge to talk about the differences in the ways that men and women use the Internet. Read more "Girls’ Internet Sites" - Last Day of School
June 20, 2000
Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for that yearly miracle – the last day of school. Read more "Last Day of School" - A Pretty Little Pocket Book
June 19, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Pretty-Little-Pocket-Book.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/19/2000 A Pretty Little Pocket Book Transcript On June 18, 1744, the following advertisement appeared in the London Penny Morning Post: ... - Princess Red Wing: Strawberry Thanksgiving
June 16, 2000
This past year, we’ve been listening to a cycle of Native American Thanksgiving legends told by the late Princess Redwing. Here she is in a recording made in Arcadia, Rhode Island in 1981, telling the story of the Strawberry Thanksgiving. ... - Outdoor Games
June 15, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Outdoor-Games-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 6/15/2000 Outdoor Games Transcript It’s June, and one day very soon that school bell will ring for the last time, signaling the ... - Pop Goes the Weasel Day
June 14, 2000
Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for Pop Goes the Weasel Day. Read more "Pop Goes the Weasel Day" - Barbara Cooney
June 13, 2000
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbara-Cooney.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2000 Barbara Cooney Transcript This past March we lost one of the remarkable, gentle voices in modern American children’s books–the writer and ...