Tag: Fiona Barnes
Valentine’s Day and the Oracles of the Playground
It's Valentine's Day, and Fiona Barnes has some reflections on children's cherished lore of love.
A. A. Milne’s Birthday
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-AA-Milne.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2002 A. A. Milne’s Birthday Transcript It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat, and cards inscribed with HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. […]
Videos for the Stocking
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Videos-for-the-Stocking.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 12/20/2001 Videos for the Stocking Transcript One of the hottest new programs on cable television this year is the English children’s program, “Bob the Builder,” which is currently airing on Nickelodeon. Each of the shows features Bob, who runs a […]
Pippi and Sylvester
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pippi-and-Sylvester-.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 11/14/2001 Pippi and Sylvester Transcript There aren’t two better writers to get carried away with during children’s book week than Astrid Lindgren and William Steig, who share the same birthday today. Ms. Lindgren, who’s a national hero in her native […]
Teen Read Week: Girls Talking
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Girls-Talking.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 10/17/2001 Teen Read Week: Girls Talking Transcript Some “girls” may “just want to have fun,” but a lot of teenage girls are more contemplative and articulate and poetic than the Go-Go’s pop anthem might make them out to be. In […]
Lemony Snicket
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patsy-Aldana.mp3 Author Fiona Barnes Air Date 7/30/2001 Lemony Snicket Transcript In the opening pages of The Bad Beginning, the first book in a projected 13-volume series about the three Baudelaire children — Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are at Briny Beach, where their extremely wealthy and trusting parents have allowed […]
Becoming Victoria
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Becoming-Victoria.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 7/17/2001 Becoming Victoria Transcript As a young girl in England, steeped in British history and the necessary adulation of the Royal Family, I was never particularly fond of Queen Victoria. After all, in my young eyes, Queen Victoria seemed to […]
Wonderland on the Auction Block
Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/5/2001 Wonderland on the Auction Block Transcript Tomorrow, Sotheby’s in London will be auctioning off nothing less than …. Wonderland itself — a unique copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (the title of the story before it became Alice in Wonderland), inscribed by its author, Lewis […]
Mildred Taylor
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]
Potty Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Potty-Books.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/24/2001 Potty Books Transcript Incredible as it may sound, someone has pronounced January 27th to be National “Love Your Toilet” Day. And as though to commemorate this curious occasion, there has been an outpouring of new books designed to encourage […]