Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Why-are-All-the-Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-in-the-Cafeteria.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/9/2004 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Transcript Today, at the University of Florida, we are having a community-wide conversation about race — one of the continuing and pressing concerns in our own area and in our nation as […]

Labor Day: Children at Work

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Labor-Day-Children-at-Work.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/6/2004 Labor Day: Children at Work Transcript Today is Labor Day, a holiday that is meant to celebrate the hard-working women and men who have built our own and every other country. Left out of this commemoration, though, are the many children who were […]

“Down in the Backpack”

That’s the New England singer and storyteller, Bill Harley, with a tune that will resonate for most kids, their folks, and their teachers about the object that has become a presence in schools today– much to the chagrin of parents and pediatricians.

Elmore Leonard – For Kids?

That’s Neil Patrick Harris (remember Doogie Hauser, M.D.?) reading the opening of Elmore Leonard’s first book for children, A Coyote’s in the House.

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Paul McCartney, Animated

That’s Paul McCartney describing the plot of Tuesday, the award-winning picture book by David Weisner, which McCartney has transformed into an animated film, set to his own musical score.

Shel Silverstein’s Underwater Land

That’s Pat Dailey with the opening of the title song for a CD called Underwater Land. It’s a collection of poems by the late Shel Silverstein, set to music and sung by Dailey and others.

The Youngest Olympians

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faster-Higher-Stronger-Books-About-the-Olympics.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/6/2004 The Youngest Olympians Transcript With the Olympics beginning next week, there is sure to be a peak of curiosity about the games, especially among the young athletes in your household. One of the impressive new visual guides to the modern Olympics may help […]

100 Best Books for Children

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Best-Books-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/2/2004 100 Best Books for Children Transcript The summer is getting along, and the children around you have probably played those favorite videos and video games at least a million times. And if they’re played out and swum out and malled out, then it […]

Space and Stars

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Space-and-Stars-A-Shimmering-New-Group-of-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/28/2004 Space and Stars Transcript Stars! Stars! Stars! — not the Hollywood variety, but the real deal — those ever fascinating points of light shimmering above us in the night sky. Stars! Stars! Stars! is also the title of a new picture book for young children […]

Picture Book Artists

That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano.

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