That’s Donovan, a familiar voice from the past, with part of the title song for his new CD, “Pied Piper.” It’s also the birthday today of the British poet, Robert Browning, who wrote the definitive poem about the Pied Piper.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-More-Little-Lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/3/2002 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript While you’re spreading the newspaper this Sunday to finally catch up a little on your painting around the house, and you catch a glimpse of the comics underneath that gallon of pistachio green paint, remember that it’s Cartoonist’s Day, in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hopscotch.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2002 Hopscotch Transcript Imagine yourself a Roman Legionaire, dressed in full battle gear, as part of your training, having to hop up and down a 100-foot long line of squares that have been scratched into the ground. That’s one of the possible origins of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Autism-Awareness-Month-Titos-Dreams.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 4/30/2002 Tito’s Dreams Autism Awareness Month Transcript Anyone who has met children with autism wonders how they experience life. Because autism affects children’s ability to communicate and interact socially, they cannot always easily explain how they see the world or […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Country-Goes-Raffi.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/29/2002 “Country Goes Raffi” Transcript How many times have you heard that celebration of everything that’s joyful about and vital to conserve in the oceans, all rolled up in the children’s song “Baby Beluga”? If you’ve had youngsters in your household in the past […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-the-Bard.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 4/24/2002 Happy Birthday to the Bard Transcript We know very little about the life of one of the world’s best known authors, William Shakespeare, which is perhaps why the controversy continues about whether or not the historical Shakespeare, who was […]
You’re hearing the first part of the Emily Dickenson poem, “Hope is the Thing With Feathers,” sung by Tahkus Ekedal and Amy Deegan from a collection of well-known 19th and early 20th century American poems for young people that have been set to music by Ted Jacobs and others.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Child-as-Poet-Mattie-Stepanek.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/12/2002 The Child as Poet: Mattie Stepanek Transcript It’s National Poetry Month, and because of the events of September 11th, we have turned to poetry as a way to give form and shape and language to those experiences that have stunned and overwhelmed our […]
That’s one of Bobby Darin’s hits, suddenly turned young again, dripping wet, and ready to shake the water off. It’s one of the 13 delightful songs on “Toddlers Sing Rock and Roll,” from Music for Little People.
Recently, we spoke with Barbara Woodhouse, director of the University of Florida’s Center for Children and the Law, about one of the most memorably books of her childhood, The Country Bunny.