Tag: Charles Perrault
Mother Goose Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2006 Mother Goose Day Transcript It was Mother Goose Day yesterday — a cause for celebration in many towns across the country, where parents push brightly decorated baby carriages and strollers and pull wagons loaded with children dressed in their May finery or in […]
Mother Goose’s Music
Have you ever heard Little Jack Horner performed with such elegance before? That’s Jon Garrison and Michael Riley singing James Hook’s setting of that old Mother Goose favorite from a new CD called “Mother Goose and More.”
Beauty
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]
Charles Perrault
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Charles-Perrault.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/10/2002 Charles Perrault Transcript Charles Perrault, born in Paris in 1628, had an active life. He first became a lawyer, but growing bored with that, he became chief clerk in one of the city offices and then Receiver-General of Taxes for the city of […]