Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-and-Grandparents-an-Activity-Book.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/7/2001 National Grandparents Day Transcript It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and if you’re a grandparent, or you know of one or two who might be looking for a quick course in grandparents lore, then Kids and Grandparents, an Activity Book by Ann Love […]
John Cech explores how Steven Spielberg’s new film, AI, taps into primal themes of children’s literature.
That’s Roland Brival singing part of his “Creole Gypsy,” which was recently a hit song in France.
That’s Maria Muldaur, talking to her mother, and then singing part of “Fala Nina, Fala Nana,” from a new compilation of world music for the whole family titled “Brown Girl in the Ring.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-and-Yoga.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/23/2001 Kids and Yoga Transcript Have you ever watched a baby, once he’s learned to sit up, how he sits with beautiful posture, keeping his back perfectly perpendicular to the floor, and his legs perfectly flat on the floor, and then how he effortlessly […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Becoming-Victoria.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 7/17/2001 Becoming Victoria Transcript As a young girl in England, steeped in British history and the necessary adulation of the Royal Family, I was never particularly fond of Queen Victoria. After all, in my young eyes, Queen Victoria seemed to […]
You’re hearing the opening from “A Gentle African Journey,” from Rhino Recordings’ International Baby series of CDs.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Quiz-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/6/2001 Quiz Kids Transcript How many seconds are there in a year? If the Northern Lights are called the Aurora Borealis, what are the Southern Lights called? These were two of the questions that children between the ages of four and sixteen were asked […]
All the kids are heading for the beach on “Fun in the Sun” — the latest installment from Snoopy’s Klassics on Toys.
Author John Cech Air Date 6/22/2001 “All Wound Up” Transcript When I heard this, I thought I was a kid again, back in Chicago, on a Sunday morning in the 1950s, with the Polka Hour on the radio. This transporting, toe-tapping version of the old lullaby is from the Grammy Award winning singing – song-writing […]