A William Steig Weekend
That’s the opening from the animated film version of Dr. Desoto, a children’s book by William Steig about a very principled, compassionate, and clever mouse dentist.
Mother Goose and Dame Judy Dench
You’re hearing Dame Judi Dench reading from A. A. Milne’s “Wind on the Hill,” from a recent CD called “Kids’ Stuff. ”
American Lullaby
That’s the Moonlighters with part of their “Resophonic Lullaby,” from a new CD called “American Lullaby — Folk, Country, Gospel & Old-Timey Bedtime Songs.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost Stories
Unless you’re of a certain (young) age, you probably don’t remember that the great English film director, Alfred Hitchcock had, for a time, something of a corner on the market for mystery.
Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2003 Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival Transcript The other good reason to be in Chicago with your children over the next two weeks is the city’s Children’s Humanities Festival, which begins this weekend with the presentation of the Chicago Tribune’s Young Adult Book Prize. This […]
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-International-Childrens-Film-Festival-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/23/2003 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Transcript The epi-center of children’s cultural life in this country for the next few weeks shifts once again to Chicago, with the opening of the twentieth Chicago International Children’s Film Festival today. Each year the Festival screens hundreds […]
John Lithgow’s I’m a Manatee
You’re hearing part of the sung version of John Lithgow’s bouyant new children’s book, I’m a Manatee, with illustrations by Ard Hoyt.
Persepolis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-The-Story-of-a-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/17/2003 Persepolis Transcript “I was born with religion,” Marjane Satrapi writes at the beginning of her amazing, heart-rending book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Appearing with this statement of fact is a rough cartoon drawing of Satrapi as an infant in diapers, her eyes […]
“Bon Appetit!”
You may think you’re in a 1940s, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon” time warp, but it’s really the talented Grammy-award winning duo of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, on their new CD for young people called Bon Appetit! — Musical Food Fun.
“Dreamland: World Lullabies”
That’s the extraordinary South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (see-bone-GEE-lay koo-MAH-low) with the traditional Zulu lullaby, “Thula Mama.” It’s on a new CD called Dreamland — World Lullabies and Soothing Songs.