Tag: John Cech
Chocolate
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chocolate.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Lauren Brosnihan) Air Date 2/3/2005 Chocolate Transcript If you thought that chocolate grew on trees, you’d be right. But not in the form of candy bars or foil-wrapped bon bons. Earlier this fall I visited a traveling exhibition about chocolate from the Field Museum […]
Ben Franklin’s Kids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ben-Franklins-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/19/2005 Ben Franklin’s Kids Transcript It was Ben Franklin’s birthday a few days ago, just the right time to pass along this information that we received from Seymour Block, who listens to these programs and is a neighbor and friend. Seymour is also an […]
A Dream of Freedom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Dream-of-Freedom.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/17/2005 A Dream of Freedom Transcript It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and his life and death are central to a new book for young people by Diane McWhorter called A Dream of Freedom, The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. This […]
An Ellabration
That’s Sweet Honey in the Rock with part of an a capella tribute to Ella Jenkins, who’s been called “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”
Rudyard Kipling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rudyard-Kipling.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/29/2004 Rudyard Kipling Transcript Its the birthday this week of the author, Rudyard Kipling. He was born in Bombay, India, in 1865, to British parents who had been posted to the subcontinent, then part of England’s colonial empire. Kipling would make India the setting […]
An Atlas for the Holidays
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/An-Atlas-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/17/2004 An Atlas for the Holidays Transcript The shelves and display tables at book and discount stores are overloaded with children’s books during the holidays. One hardly knows where to begin: there are new series of books for younger children that are meant to […]
Robert Sabuda’s Sharks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sharks-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2006 Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters Robert Sabuda’s Sharks Transcript I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely giddy over pop-up books — or any books that have moveable parts or some other tactile inventions. They can be simple, even rudimentary, like […]
The Floppy Sleep Game
If you have a little one who just doesn’t want to go to sleep, you might try putting on The Floppy Sleep Game a new “bedtime relaxation CD” by Patti Teel from Dream Flight Productions in Santa Barbara.
Maurice Sendak’s Pincus and the Pig
That’s Maurice Sendak, who wrote the libretto and narrates this Klezmatic version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classical standard. Sendak has renamed it Pincus and the Pig, and the music is provided by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.
Persepolis 2
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-2.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 11/17/2004 Persepolis 2 Transcript One of the most important books to appear this fall for older teens and young adults is the second volume of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis 2. This installment continues Ms. Satrapi’s story about growing […]