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Bambi

That's Thumper the Rabbit talking to Bambi's mother in the beautiful opening sequence of Walt Disney's 1942 film when all the gentle animals of the forest come to see the newborn deer.

Disneyland Opens

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disneyland-Beginnings.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/15/2004 Disneyland Opens Transcript On July 17, 1955 Walt Disney opened the doors to Disneyland and turned his cartoon world into a three-dimensional experience. Disney’s interest in fantasy takes us to the root of understanding what he was trying to achieve with his theme […]

Children’s Books from Germany

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Books-from-Germany.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/19/2003 Children’s Books from Germany Transcript In Germany, literature for children has a rich history. The first picture book, in fact, was the work of the German educational reformer Johan Comenius, who in 1658, published The Orbis Sensualium Pictus which roughly translated means A World of Things […]