Tag: John Cech
Biographers Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pick-and-Shovel-Poet.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/16/2005 Biographers Day Transcript It’s Biographers Day today, in honor of the first meeting in London, in 1763, of James Boswell and that formidable man of letters, Samuel Johnson, who would soon become the subject of Boswell’s celebrated biography. We usually think of biographies […]
On the Children’s Book Scene with Susan Raab
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/On-the-Childrens-Book-Scene-with-Susab-Raab.mp3 Author John Cech and Susan Raab Air Date 5/11/2005 On the Children’s Book Scene with Susan Raab Transcript We are speaking today with Susan Raab who reports regularly for Recess on the current children’s book scene. She’s also written An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion, to help people […]
Mother’s Day Lullabies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Songs-for-Mothers-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2005 Mother’s Day Lullabies Transcript It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. The American holiday began in 1907 in Philadelphia, as a way to remember a mother who had passed away, and it has become since then an occasion to honor all mothers. On a CD […]
Hana in the Time of the Tulips
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hanna-in-the-Time-of-the-Tulips.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2005 Hana in the Time of the Tulips Transcript It’s the first days of May, a time when things suddenly begin to bloom in northern climates, a time for flowers. The ancient Romans even held a festival in the early part of May in […]
Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz, and Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wilhelm-Busch.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/15/2005 Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz, and Comics Transcript In 1865, one of the great comic works about two of the baddest boys in the history of childhood, Max and Moritz, first appeared in Munich, Germany. It was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch, […]
First Child Poets
What you’re hearing is a child making his first poems — squealing with delight at the sound of his own voice, rhyming sounds, endlessly repeating what he decides will be his choruses, singing his couplets with his whole little body.
Zen Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zen-Baby-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/30/2005 Zen Baby Transcript Zen Baby is the title of a new CD of music to soothe the awakening nerve endings of young children and, I can’t help but think, the frazzled nero-receptors of their parents, as well. Here’s a little from the opening track, […]
Mary Poppins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-New-Mary-Poppins.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/23/2005 Mary Poppins Transcript Nannies seem to be everywhere these days — they’re on TV and writing books, and you can spot them looking after the children of two-career families, and the kids of the stars. But there’s something quintessential about the Nanny who’s […]
Mad Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mad-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2005 Mad Magazine Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Bill Gaines, the publisher of one of the edgiest institutions in American childhood, Mad Magazine. Since its first appearance in comic book form in the fall of 1952, Mad’s brand of outlandish, satiric humor was […]
Smoosh
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Smoosh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/18/2005 Smoosh Transcript There’s nothing really new any more about the phenomenon of kids playing rock “n”roll. It’s in the air all around them, and it’s part of the world and its rhythms that they’re tuning themselves to. But every once in awhile, a […]