Tag: John Cech
Dennis the Menace
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dennis-the-Menace.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/14/2005 Dennis the Menace Transcript It’s the birthday this week of Henry King Ketcham, better known to his many regular readers as Hank Ketcham, the creator of one of America’s favorite cartoon characters, Dennis the Menace, whose 55th birthday we can also celebrate this […]
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 […]
The Lindbergh Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Lindbergh-Baby.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/1/2005 The Lindbergh Baby Transcript On March 1, 1932, between 8 and 9 in the evening, someone put a rickety ladder up to the nursery window of the country home in Hopewell, New Jersey, belonging to the most celebrated couple in the world at […]
Tropical Lullaby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tropical-Lullaby.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/23/2005 Tropical Lullaby Transcript It’s carnival time on the islands of the Caribbean, and after all the parades and the feasting and the dancing, it’s time for lullabies, those cante hundos or soul songs that adults sing to children, and other loved ones. You […]
Patchwork Paths and Homemade Love
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patchwork-Paths-and-Homemade-Love.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/22/2005 Patchwork Paths and Homemade Love Transcript In her new picture book, The Patchwork Path, A Quilt Map to Freedom, Bettye Stroud tells the story of a young African American girl, Hannah, and her father who escape from slavery in the pre-Civil-War American South. Hannah’s […]
The Explanatoids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Explanatoids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/18/2005 The Explanatoids Transcript You can see one part of the legacy of Fred Rodgers — Mr. Rogers to millions of us — literally on the streets and in the parks and playgrounds of his home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And it’s a legacy […]
“Hand in the Dough” Science
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hand-in-the-Dough-Science.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Carol Murphy) Air Date 2/17/2005 “Hand in the Dough” Science Transcript La main à la pâte: It’s a familiar expression in French, and it means that to really learn about something, you need to put your hand in the dough. This is the title given to […]
Vicki Cobb and Her Science Books for Kids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vicki-Cobb-and-Her-Science-Books-for-kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/16/2005 Vicki Cobb and Her Science Books for Kids Transcript This week at the University of Florida we’re hosting a colloquium about some of the innovative ways that being found to bring science into children’s lives. Over the coming days, we’ll be introducing you […]
Valentine’s Day with the Beatles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Valentines-Day-with-the-Beatles.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/14/2005 Valentine’s Day with the Beatles Transcript It’s Valentine’s Day, a day for flowers, and chocolates, and, of course, for observations about love — like eight-year-old Dave who says, “Love will find you even if you are trying to hide from it. I been […]
To Be and to Have
That’s the sound of young children, quietly working on their penmanship in the 2002 French film, To Be and to Have, directed by Nicholas Philibert, which is available at most video stores.