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Children’s Book Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Childrens-Book-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/13/2006 Children’s Book Week Transcript This is National Children’s Book Week, which has been brought to us every year since 1919 by the Children’s Book Council. This year’s theme is “More Books Please,” and in the Book Week materials that it makes available — […]

World Rights of the Child Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/World-Rights-of-the-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/19/1999 World Rights of the Child Day Transcript It’s the end of Children’s Book Week, and we have been talking about some of the new books that are ready to be planted in our children’s lives. But for there to even be books in […]

National Children’s Book Week 1

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Book-Week-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/15/1999 National Children’s Book Week Transcript National Children’s Book Week has been celebrated in November since 1919, thanks to the spirited leadership of Frederic Melcher, the editor of Publisher’s Weekly at the time, who argued that such an annual event was necessary because it […]