Tag: Jaimy Mann
Soothing Sounds for Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Soothing-Sounds-for-Baby-Music-Review.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 6/19/2007 Soothing Sounds for Baby Transcript My newborn, like most babies, calms when she hears the vacuum, but the music that stimulates her is by Raymond Scott. When she first heard this, at two weeks old, it was as if codes in the electronic […]
Takashi Murakami’s Little Boy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Takashi-Murakamis-Little-Boy.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 5/10/2006 Takashi Murakami’s Little Boy Transcript Japanese children’s artifacts that are becoming increasingly popular globally include genres like manga, anime, and kawaii, or cute. Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, edited by artist Takashi Murakami and titled after the nickname of the atomic bomb […]
Seen Art?
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Seen-Art_.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 7/19/2005 Seen Art? Transcript Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s Seen Art? is one of the newest examples of what The New York Museum of Modern Art publishes for children. Seen Art? is, in part, like so many museum publications for children (particularly books put out by New York’s […]
Alia’s Mission, Elsie’s War
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Alias-Mission-Elsies-War-.mp3 Author John Cech (Read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 3/8/2005 Alia’s Mission, Elsie’s War Transcript Elsie Kunh-Leitz (“Elsee Qu-en Lights”) was the daughter of a prominent German family in the years just before World War II. Her father, Dr. Ernst Leitz (“Lights”), was the inventor of the first commercially […]
Persepolis 2
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-2.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 11/17/2004 Persepolis 2 Transcript One of the most important books to appear this fall for older teens and young adults is the second volume of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis 2. This installment continues Ms. Satrapi’s story about growing […]
Keba, Keba
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Takishi-Murakamis-Super-Flat-Keba-Keba.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 10/14/2004 Keba, Keba Transcript Keba Keba is Japanese for Gaudy Tawdry, and it is the title of artist Takashi Murakami’s first picture book for children, with a story written by pop musician Yujin Kitagawa. This bright, colorful book, appropriate for readers of all ages, […]