Tag: John Cech
Books for Youth Art Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Youth-Art-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/31/2003 Books for Youth Art Month Transcript It’s Youth Art Month, and given that it’s also Women’s History Month, we thought we might combine these two celebrations in books about women artists. Robyn Montana Turner’s series, “Portraits of Women Artists for Children” is an […]
Geoffrey Canada
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Geoffrey-Canada.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Harun Thomas) Air Date 3/20/2003 Geoffrey Canada Transcript Geoffrey Canada begins his recent book — Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America — with his getting the news about the deaths of a number of his childhood friends. These were now grown […]
Ntozake Shange
You’re hearing a little from the recent film version of Ntozake Shange’s (En-toe-sake Shange’s) book, Whitewash.
Children, Culture and Violence
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-Culture-and-Violence.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/18/2003 Children, Culture and Violence Transcript What do Children, Culture, and Violence have to do with each other, one might ask. Unfortunately, the answer is: everything. Just as violence is, alas, a factor in our everyday adult lives, every day, we find that violence […]
A Moment that Mattered with Elain Pagels
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Elaine-Pagels-on-New-Old-Stories.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/4/2003 A Moment that Mattered with Elain Pagels Transcript Today we are speaking with the noted biblical scholar, Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. I asked Professor Pagels about the abiding importance of stories, for both adults and […]
Books for Women’s History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Womens-History-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/3/2003 Books for Women’s History Month Transcript One of the best places to start a young person’s journey to find out about women and their many roles in history would be the series of books by Fiona Macdonald called “The […]
Taj Mahal
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Taj-Mahal.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/26/2003 Taj Mahal Transcript One of our country’s best bluesmen, who keeps getting better every year, is Taj Mahal, who found the blues when he was a teenager and it changed his life. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, the oldest in a family […]
Word Dance
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Word-Dance-A-Creative-Kids-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/20/2003 Word Dance Transcript If you have an aspiring young writer in your household, who’s been churning out stories and poems all winter, and is yearning to see her work in print, you might want to find out more about Word Dance. It’s a non-profit magazine […]
Hip Kid Hop Books
That’s LL Cool J, backed up by a toy piano, with some words for young people about winning — and losing! — graciously. This book and CD combination is titled And the Winner Is.
The Underground of Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Comics-Underground.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/7/2003 The Underground of Comics Transcript If you’re into comics — comic books, comic strips, sequential art and pictorial narratives — the University of Florida has a weekend for you, this February 7th and 8th. It’s our second annual conference on this popular art […]