Tag: Boys
Good Music for Little Guys
That’s a few measures from John Phillip Souza’s rousing “Stars and Stripes Forever” from a new CD called Good Music for Little Guys, a compilation of classical pieces.
“Scrub Camp” – A Different Sense of Mastery
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scrub-Camp-A-Different-Sense-of-Mastery-.mp3 Author Dave Reidy Air Date 6/29/2006 “Scrub Camp” – A Different Sense of Mastery Transcript In his essay “Boy Culture,” E. Anthony Rotundo cites examples of 19th-century boys tormenting woodchucks and maiming unoffending insects. Even urban boys would return to their city homes with trophies stuffed and mounted. Such […]
Guysread.com
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Guysreadcom.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/11/2006 Guysread.com Transcript One of the coolest looking and most useful websites currently online for young people — especially young boy people — is John Scieszka’s guysread.com. Scieszka is the author of books like Science Verse, Math Curse, The Time Warp Trio, and The Stinky Cheeseman, that classic […]
Books for Boys
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Boys.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/12/2000 Books for Boys Transcript There has been a wave of books and public discussions in recent years about the importance of raising less aggressive, more emotionally-centered boys. Boys whose values and actions will make us proud, as parents and as a society. One […]
St. Nicholas in May
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/23/2000 St. Nicholas in May Transcript St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. The May, 1900, issue opens with an essay by Theodore Roosevelt entitled, “What We Can Expect of the American Boy?” […]
Manners for Boys
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]
Boy Scouts Books
Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, to discuss Boy Scouts books.