Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lewis-Carrolls-Puzzles.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/27/2005 Lewis Carroll’s Poetic Puzzles Transcript Perhaps no four lines are more famous in the realm of children’s poetry than the opening stanza to “Jabberwocky”, – Lewis Carroll’s penultimate moment as a children’s poet – As read by William Rushton from the first chapter […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventing-Alice.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2003 The Day Alice Was Written Transcript Published in 1865, the bizarre and nonsensical Alice in Wonderlandmarks the moment when literature for children became something more than nursery rhymes and moral tales. It is amazing to think that a good deal of that story was […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Lennon-Imagining.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/9/2002 John Lennon – Imagining Transcript When John Lennon was 11 years old, he received a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland as a birthday present. The surreal, nonsensical volume left a lasting impression on the young man. Lennon notes, “I was passionate about Alice in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Old-Mother-Hubbard-and-The-Dog-Days.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/27/2002 Old Mother Hubbard and the Dog Days Transcript Here we are, in the midst of the summer dog days and I am going to take this opportunity to honor a dog who gets much less credit and respect than he deserves. This dog […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Isaac-Watts-A-First-Childrens-Poet.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/18/2002 Isaac Watts Transcript Isaac Watts, born in 1674 in England, was a Non-conformist minister and a hymn writer. In his lifetime he wrote over 600 hymns. Some of them, such as O God, Our Help in Ages Past, When I Survey the Wondrous […]
Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/5/2001 Wonderland on the Auction Block Transcript Tomorrow, Sotheby’s in London will be auctioning off nothing less than …. Wonderland itself — a unique copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (the title of the story before it became Alice in Wonderland), inscribed by its author, Lewis […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Edition-Alice.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/17/2001 A Tenniel Illustration First Edition Alice Transcript “Curiouser and curiouser!” This is the comment of Alice in Wonderland after she eats the cake and feels herself beginning to “open out like the largest telescope that ever was.” Curious would also be a good […]
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, with a Lost and Found Essay about conundrums.