Tag: John Cech
World Party
It’s from a new CD from Music for Little People called World Party. And it takes the family from Morocco to New Zealand, from the Caribbean to Central Asia.
Kids on the Move
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Going-Places.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2006 Kids on the Move Transcript Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention in the history of childhood because it gave kids another exhilarating way to sail through their young lives. Children have been finding […]
The Songs of the Pogo
Walt Kelly was one of the masters of American nonsense. His much loved, hilariously cryptic Pogo comic strip first appeared in 1949 and was in American papers even after Kelly’s death in 1973.
Some Hip Baby Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Hip-Baby-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/23/2006 Some Hip Baby Books Transcript There’s a category of books often called “baby books”–those chunky, square volumes with rounded corners and thick pages that can’t be crumpled or easily chewed up. Babies, after all, test the value of a book (and almost everything […]
Music for the End of Time
The title of Bryant’s book is borrowed from Messiean’s best-known work, the “Quartet for the End of Time,” which he wrote while in a prison camp for French soldiers captured by the Nazis during World War II.
Guysread.com
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Guysreadcom.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/11/2006 Guysread.com Transcript One of the coolest looking and most useful websites currently online for young people — especially young boy people — is John Scieszka’s guysread.com. Scieszka is the author of books like Science Verse, Math Curse, The Time Warp Trio, and The Stinky Cheeseman, that classic […]
Chinese Lullabies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chinese-Lullabies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/9/2006 Chinese Lullabies Transcript Some of the most visually beautiful films are coming out of China these days, and so is some of the loveliest music for children. Here’s a little from the beginning of a song from the Guangdong region called “Hammock Hanging […]
Polly Horvath
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Polly-Horvath-and-her-Vacation.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/4/2006 Polly Horvath Transcript Even though it’s winter, it’s not too early for a vacation, especially if you’re going on one with award-winning author, Polly Horvath. Here she is, reading from her novel, The Vacation, at a recent writer’s conference. The story is about a […]
The Golden Dreydl
That’s the familiar theme from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” dancing to the sound of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra on a CD called The Golden Dreydl.
African Music for Children
You can find this and other exciting performances on the new CD called African Music for Children from the people who do the Rough Guide series of travel books.