Tag: John Cech
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Boy with a Camera
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Boy-with-a-Camera-Jacques-Henri-Lartigue-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2002 Boy with a Camera Transcript It’s the birthday today of one of the world’s great photographers, Jacques-Henri Lartigue. He was, most certainly, the world’s greatest child photographer. Lartigue was born in Paris in 1894, the second son of a prosperous family. Jacques-Henri’s father […]
Graduation Presents
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Graduation-Presents-Try-Books.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/7/2002 Graduation Presents Transcript With some middle school and high school graduations coming up, I’ve been thinking about appropriate presents. A decent fountain pen has gravitas. And you can’t go wrong with a nice new wallet with a couple of […]
“Zoo Parade”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zoo-Parade.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/28/2002 “Zoo Parade” Transcript Over a half a century ago today, in 1952, one of the first wildlife shows for children reached television — NBC’s “Zoo Parade,” which was hosted by the urbane, Marlin Perkins, with his neat, regimental mustache, and was set in […]
Children of the Depression — in Photographs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-of-the-Depression-in-Photos.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/27/2002 Children of the Depression Transcript The facts are still staggering, as Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin remind us in their new book, Children of the Depression. In 1933, they write, “34 million men women and children were entirely without income. That was […]
Books That Mattered: A Conversation with Martin Sandler
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-that-Mattered-Martin-Sandler.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/21/2002 A Conversation with Martin Sandler Transcript Continuing our series about children’s books that have mattered to people in their lives, we recently spoke with the Emmy-award-winning television producer and Horn Book Award-winning author, Martin Sandler about the books that have stayed with him. […]
The Langley Schools Music Project
You’re hearing nine-year-old Sheila Behman’s cover for Don Henley’s rock anthem, “Desperado,” with her music teacher, Hans Fenger, accompanying her on the piano.
The Read In!
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reading-in-with-readin.org_.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/16/2002 The Read In! Transcript In tight budget times like these, it’s become increasingly more difficult for schools and libraries to afford to bring children’s book authors to town for visits with their young readers. Enter the The Read In on the Internet — […]
Girls Rights Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-Girls-Rights-Week-girlsincorg.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 5/15/2002 Girls Rights Week Transcript There’s a web site out there that every girl who’s listening should know about: www.girlsinc.org. This is the home on the internet of Girls Incorporated, a non-profit organization that began in the 1860s to help girls […]
Music for Mother’s Day
That’s Los Lobos, from their delightful CD for young people called “Papa’s Dream.” And, speaking as a mother, that’s the way that I’d like to wake up on Mother’s Day morning - with a serenade!
Childhoods of the Presidents: Harry Truman
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childhoods-of-the-Presidents-Truman.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/8/2002 Childhoods of the Presidents: Harry Truman Transcript Today, on the birthday of Harry S. Truman, we are beginning an on-going series of programs about the childhoods of the American Presidents. One wonders, of course, if, with these figures who have been and are […]