Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Blake-and-the-Angel.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/27/2002 William Blake and the Angel Transcript When he was ten years old, William Blake (who was born on November 28th in 1757) saw an angel in a tree outside his family’s house in London. Though no one believed him at the time, he […]
Have you ever heard Little Jack Horner performed with such elegance before? That’s Jon Garrison and Michael Riley singing James Hook’s setting of that old Mother Goose favorite from a new CD called “Mother Goose and More.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Karen-Hesse-Out-of-the-Dust.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/19/2002 Karen Hesse Transcript Karen Hesse has just won one of the MacArthur “genius” awards for her books for children and young adults. There is a great deal to celebrate in this announcement — a truly gifted writer has received her due, and that’s […]
That’s Olivier Marcaud singing the last part of his “La Berceuse d’Angela” from a new CD from Elipses Arts, “Mother Earth Lullaby.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Veterans-Day-Celebration-of-America.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/11/2002 Veteran’s Day — “Celebration of America” Transcript It’s Veteran’s Day today, our national holiday that commemorates the end of World War I, on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh month, of the eleventh day in 1918. A new CD for young people, “Celebration […]
You’ve just heard an excerpt from the opening song, “Night Owl,” that features the duet work of Dan and Aimee Mann. Each of the 16 pieces in this amazing CD for children and families has something truly wonderful going on in it.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/So-You-Want-to-be-President.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/5/2002 “So You Want to Be President?” Transcript It’s Election Day today, and even though the presidential election is still two years away, there’s already a great deal of thought and talk about it, which at some point leads us back to that dream […]
That’s Amy Lowe singing and Megan Wells as Mrs. O’Leary, deconstructing the legend of the great Chicago fire of 1871. It’s from a CD called “Fire in Boomtown.”
That’s Neil Gaiman reading from his newly published dark fantasy for young people, Coraline, as the young heroine of the story begins her journey, as so many fantasies start, by crossing the threshold into another place.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]