Tag: Folklore
The Little People
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Little-People.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/15/2007 The Little People Transcript As we head towards St. Patrick’s Day and fanciful images of Leprechauns begin appearing in television commercials and on cocktail napkins, we might pause for a moment to remember the Little People. Whether you call them Leprechauns, Gnomes, Brownies, […]
Legends of the Tooth Fairy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Legends-of-the-Tooth-Fairy.mp3 Author Tanya Underwood Air Date 8/23/2005 Legends of the Tooth Fairy Transcript If only teeth grew on trees, and you wanted a larger upper bicuspid, for example, you could just go to the tooth tree and pick yourself a pearly new one. Were medieval Europeans trying to grow tooth […]
Robin Hood Festival
That’s Roger Miller, playing the Dukes-of-Hazard-style minstrel Allan a Dale, with one of the songs from the 1973 cartoon version of Robin Hood.
Wholly Nasrudin
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wholly-Nasrudin-Tales-from-the-Middle-East.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 1/23/2004 Wholly Nasrudin Transcript If you thought saints couldn’t be funny, think again, for here comes Nasrudin, the witty and wise visionary holy man from Sufi culture, a branch of Islam. In traditional folkore all over Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan, anecdotes about Nasrudin are […]
Folktales for National Grandparents Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Folktales-for-National-Grandparents-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/5/2003 Folktales for National Grandparents Day Transcript It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and the well-known storyteller, Jane Yolen, a grandparent herself, has offered a present specifically for grandsons, in her new collection of folktales: Mightier Than the Sword, World Folktales for Strong Boys. These […]
Children’s Books of Switzerland
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Swiss-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/4/2003 Children’s Books of Switzerland Transcript Switzerland is home to a rich tradition of children’s literature. The Swiss, in fact, invented the annual, a gift of engravings and verses that were given to children on the New Year. In the old days it was […]
Listen to the Storyteller
That’s Winton Marsalis with the opening from the story, “The Fiddler and the the Dancin’ Witch,” about a little boy named Simeon who’d rather play his father’s magic fiddle than almost anything else.
Children’s Literature from Italy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Literature-from-Italy.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/26/2003 Children’s Literature from Italy Transcript One of the oldest and most influential Italian folk tales is the legend of Cupid and Psyche, as told by the Roman philosopher, Lucius Apuleius who jotted the tale down, in Latin, in the 2nd century ad. The […]
Robin Hood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Robin-Hood.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/12/2003 Robin Hood Transcript In today’s world, where children have so many events organized for them, where the activities of childhood begin to mountain into a stack of soccer schedules and field trip permissions, you begin to wonder, perhaps, if anyone still plays at […]
The Frog Princess, for Jacob Grimm’s Birthday
That’s Deborah Henson-Conant, the composer and author, reading the opening from her musical sequel to “The Frog Prince” — just in time for Jacob Grimm’s birthday tomorrow.