Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mothers-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/11/2001 Mother’s Day Transcript It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. The holiday began in 1907 in Philadelphia, as a way to remember a mother who had passed away, and it had become, by Presidential decree in 1914, an occasion to honor all mothers. Three recent […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reading-Out-Loud-Together.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/10/2001 Reading Out Loud, Together: An Interview with Mary Ann Paulin Transcript We spoke recently with Mary Ann Paulin, a public librarian from Marquette, Michigan, and the author of two books on the Creative Uses of Children’s Literature. Ms Paulin’s central concern is how […]
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That’s the chorus from Nana Animalera, written and sung by Maricela Verena, a Cuban composer and musician, living in Puerto Rico, from a new CD called Cuban Lullaby, from Ellipsis Arts.
Author John Cech Air Date 5/4/2001 Some Books for Cartoonist’s Day Transcript It’s Cartoonist’s Day tomorrow, and if there’s a young Charles Schultz or Lynda Barry in your household, you might want to surprise them, for a birthday or as a sign of your solidarity, with two new books about cartoons — books that you’ll […]
You’re listening to Pete Seeger, one of America’s authentic minstrels, whose birthday it is today.
Author John Cech Air Date 4/26/2001 Doing the Numbers: Some Books About Math Transcript It’s Mathematics Education Month, and numbers are in the air. For those younger children, who are just beginning to wrap their minds around the concept of larger number groups and the differences between numbers on paper and numbers in reality, you […]
Author John Cech Air Date 4/23/2001 Astronomy Week Transcript Have you seen what’s been going on in the sky lately? Well, it’s actually been happening for probably tens of millions of years, but we’ve only been able to see it for the past few centuries, and, really, since 1990 when the Hubble Space Telescope was […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/I-love-ya-tomorrow-Annies-Anniversary.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Heather Tomasello) Air Date 4/20/2001 Tomorrow and Tomorrow Transcript Today marks the anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical Annie. As a kid, I was introduced to this scrappy orphan not through the play but the 1982 movie version, with the unforgettable Carol […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Two-New-Poetry-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/12/2001 Voices From Two New Poetry Books Transcript One of the things most precious to a poet is what is called his or her “voice” — that particular, unique quality that distinguishes the language and tones of her poems from everyone else’s. Voices is […]
You’re hearing Ruthie, who’s eight, reciting part of the poem, “Where a Cloud Sleeps” from a wonderful CD called “Re-Bop Read Aloud / For Kids, By Kids” from ReBop Records in Marshfield, Vermont.