Tag: Harry Potter
The End (?) of Harry Potter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-End-_-of-Harry-Potter.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 7/20/2007 The End(?) of Harry Potter Transcript For Harry Potter fans, the biggest day of the year has finally arrived. Beginning at midnight, devoted readers will be poring over Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh (and final) book in the series that J.K. […]
Harry and the Potters
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-and-the-Potters.mp3 Author Cat Tosenberger Air Date 7/18/2007 Harry and the Potters Transcript The new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie opened last weekend, but you won’t be hearing this “Phoenix Song” in the film. Brief Sound Clip: It’s from the CD, Harry and the Potters and the Power of Love, […]
Oxford and Wonderland
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oxford-and-Wonderland.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/27/2007 Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford and Wonderland Transcript When one thinks of the world of children’s literature, both in the fictive world and the real world, England often comes to mind. From Peter Pan’s statue in Kensington Gardens in London, to […]
Halloween In Salem
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halloween-in-Salem.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/30/2006 Halloween in Salem Transcript New England celebrates Halloween. I mean, it really celebrates it. And for good reason. There are more ghosts per capita in the New England states than anywhere else. I once spoke with a filmmaker who was going to do […]
The Other Wizard – of Earthsea
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Other-Wizard-of-Earthsea.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/19/2005 The Other Wizard – of Earthsea Transcript Almost everything in children’s books these days still circles back to Harry Potter, especially with another movie based on the fourth of J. K. Rowling’s novels getting ready to open next month. Most teenagers are probably […]
The Witching Hour Symposium
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-Potter-Becomes-a-Conference.mp3 Author Catherine Tosenberger Air Date 5/10/2005 The Witching Hour Symposium Transcript If you’re a Harry Potter fan who is totally (and I mean totally!) immersed in everything about the popular series, you may want to mark your calendar for October 6th through 10th of 2005. That’s when “The Witching […]
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy
We're in a Potter lull right now, but John Cech has a recommendation for a new fantasy series to tide children over.
Waiting for Harry Potter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Waiting-for-Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/29/2000 Waiting for Harry Potter Transcript There are such things as Harmonic Convergences in the book world–when the forces–a fine book, an excited publisher, a receptive audience, and a favorable Zeitgeist–all vibrate together. Who would have guessed that Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt’s account of […]
Harry Potter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/7/1999 Harry Potter Transcript Got your running shoes on? Got the car warmed up? Today Scholastic Books finally releases, in this country, the third of the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. What’s a Harry Potter book? Unless you’re really […]