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 special delight I used to take in the poems in A.A. Milne’s When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six because they just seemed […]
You’re hearing Dame Judi Dench reading from A. A. Milne’s “Wind on the Hill,” from a recent CD called “Kids’ Stuff. ”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-AA-Milne.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2002 A. A. Milne’s Birthday Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. […]
Author Kenneth Kidd Air Date 8/2/2001 Winnie the Pooh Transcript Like many children, I fell in love with Winnie the Pooh. The only stuffed animal I ever owned was my beloved Pooh Bear, who wore a bright red vest and lots of abuse [does this work?]. I knew by heart the escapades of Pooh and […]
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/25/2001 Walter de la Mare Transcript Walter De la Mare was born in England in 1873. He was raised in a Victorian landscape of childhood that presented a dichotomy of poetic views. On the one side, there were the irreverent and humorous authors like Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, while […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winnie-the-Pooh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/21/1999 Winnie the Pooh’s Anniversary Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Because it’s the 73rd […]