Tag: John Cech
Night Kitchen Radio Theater
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Turning-in-to-the-Night-Kitchen-Radio-Theater.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/20/2005 Night Kitchen Radio Theater Transcript I can remember the days (and evenings) when the radio was the dramatic centerpiece of most households — a source for entertainment and, of course, for news events — like this: Brief Sound Clip: Don’t be alarmed — […]
Zen Shorts, and Other Wisdoms
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zen-Shorts-and-Other-Wise-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/15/2005 Zen Shorts, and Other Wisdoms Transcript This year, for presents, I’m giving wisdom. Not my own, mind you. I’m not at all sure how much of that I have. But rather in the form of some picture books, like Hugh Upton’s retellings of […]
Hobby Horses: A Brief, Brief History
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hobby-Horses-a-brief-brief-history.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/12/2005 Hobby Horses Transcript One of the most ancient of all children’s toys — and a familiar resident under the Christmas tree for centuries — is the hobby horse. It’s a simple stick with a horse’s head and reigns attached, and, with it, you […]
Sandra Day O’Connor’s Chico
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sandra-Day-OConnors-Chico.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/6/2005 Sandra Day O’Connor’s Chico Transcript Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has written a children’s book about an ordinary and yet eventful day in her life as a child, in a style as precise and deep as a clear, blue, high desert sky. […]
Geography Awareness Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Geography-and-the-Imagination.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/9/2005 Geography Awareness Week Transcript While it’s Geography Awareness Week, we wanted to mention some books that bring the subject of geography alive in unusual ways for young readers. Geography and culture are intertwined, and facts can be woven together by the imagination. Did […]
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-Afghanistan-to-Zimbabwe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/7/2005 From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe Transcript It’s Geography Awareness Week, and already young people around the country are gearing up for the big National Geographic Bee in which students from fourth through eighth grades test their knowledge of the world’s geography each year. More […]
Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-City-of-Festivals-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/28/2005 Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals Transcript This time of year, the center for children’s culture in this country always moves to Chicago, where the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and the Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival both begin this weekend. This year marks the 22nd […]
Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jim-Haskins-African-Americas-Biographer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/26/2005 Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer Transcript Jim Haskins passed away this summer. He was very well-known as a writer of biographies and other works of non-fiction for children, young people, and adults, and he was my friend and colleague in the English Department […]
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 […]
Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/the-Magic-Lantern-Theater-Still-Glowing.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/5/2005 Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit Transcript Before any of our modern media — movies, television, videos or DVDs — the Magic Lantern show was the most dazzling, multi-sensory public entertainment around. In America in the late 1800s and into the early 20th century, […]