Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Yolen-and-her-Dinosaurs.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/1/2005 Jane Yolen and her Dinosaurs Transcript All this month, Recess! correspondent, Susan Raab will be visiting with children’s book authors and illustrators at the recent Book Expo in New York City, asking them to read from their work or to tell us more about it. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/21/2002 The Chicago Humanities Festival Transcript One of the truly exciting celebrations of the work that is produced for and by children and young people will be taking place in Chicago over the next two weeks. It’s the Children’s Festival which runs in schools […]