Tag: Dinosaur
Jane Yolen and her Dinosaurs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Yolen-and-her-Dinosaurs.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/1/2005 Jane Yolen and her Dinosaurs Transcript All this month, Recess! correspondent, Susan Raab will be visiting with children’s book authors and illustrators at the recent Book Expo in New York City, asking them to read from their work or to tell us more about it. […]
Robert Sabuda’s Sharks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sharks-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2006 Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters Robert Sabuda’s Sharks Transcript I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely giddy over pop-up books — or any books that have moveable parts or some other tactile inventions. They can be simple, even rudimentary, like […]
A License for The Month of the Dinosaur
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
Becoming a Paleontologist
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]
Dinosaur Night Light
Children never, ever, ever get tired of dinosaurs, even when it's bedtime. Here's Barry Stewart Mann with a story for all those sleepy dino-philes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Dinosaurs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-Dinosaurs.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/4/2002 Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Dinosaurs Transcript In celebrating the birthday of Edgar R. Burroughs I have chosen to skip his most well-known creation, the jungle hero Tarzan, and celebrate instead, dinosaur fiction, a genre that Burroughs contributed to with his 1916 publication […]
Music for Dinosaur Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-Dinosaur-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/5/2001 Music for Dinosaur Month Transcript October has been dubbed the Month of the Dinosaur, and if your family still hasn’t had enough Velociraptor and Pterodactyl action from this past summer’s movie fare at the Jurassiplex, or insightful commentary from the BBC’s and Discovery […]
A Dinosaur Named Sue
Today, Koren Stembridge on the Internet is talking about dinosaurs.
Dinosaur
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dinosaur.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2000 Dinosaur Transcript School’s almost over for the year, and when it is, it’ll be impossible for you to put off a visit to the local multiplex with your children for Walt Disney’s latest animation extravaganza, Dinosaur, if they haven’t already had you take […]