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“Red’s in the Hood” and “Beanstock” — Hardly Grimm

That’s part of the theme song for Judy and David’s “Red’s in the Hood, A New Spin on Little Red Riding Hood” from The Children’s Group, a Canadian company that has been producing acclaimed classical music recordings for young people for more than a decade.

Hans Christian Andersen

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Christian-Anderson-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/2/2001 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript It’s Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday today. He was born in the little Danish town of Odense, in 1805, the son of a washerwoman and a cobbler, the poorest of the poor in the town, though Andersen’s mother claimed that […]

The Yellow Star

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Yellow-Star.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/1/2000 The Yellow Star Transcript Hans Christian Andersen’s first book of fairy tales was published today in 1835, and Andersen has since become a Danish national hero. But there is another Danish hero whom many of us haven’t heard about – the Dane’s beloved […]

The Storyteller

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Storyteller.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/23/2000 The Storyteller Transcript If you thought there was a familiar look to last month’s television movie of the Arabian Nights, you’d be right. The dazzling special effects were the work of the Henson studios that were founded by the late Jim Henson and […]

Lovelorn Princess

Here's Barry Stewart Mann with a Valentine's story about an unlikely love.

Jacob Grimm

Today is the birthday of Jacob Grimm, and Rita Smith is here today to discuss the life and influence of the Brother Grimm.

Hans Christian Andersen First Book of Fairy Tales

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hans-Andersen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/30/1999 Hans Christian Andersen Transcript Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the publication in 1835 of the first volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Told for Children. Andersen called it his first booklet; in it were “The Tinderbox,” “Little Claus and Big Claus,” “The […]