Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-the-Top.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2001 “From the Top” Transcript “From the Top” is a year old this month, and we should all be singing the praises of this amazing weekly radio program, heard on many public radio stations, that features the performances of young […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Coming-of-Age-in-Japan.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/17/2001 Coming of Age Day Transcript This past week in Japan, tens of thousand of young men and women will celebrate the exhilarating, frustrating, and often tumultuous journey from childhood to adulthood. It’s called Seijin-no-hi, and is a national holiday […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-on-the-Move.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/16/2001 “Kids on the Move” Exhibition Transcript Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention in the history of childhood because it gave kids another exhilarating way to sail through their young lives. Such energy is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ML-King-Day-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2001 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Transcript It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, a time for tributes to this remarkable leader and peace-maker. One of the forms those tributes has taken is in the dozens of books for children and young people that […]
That’s the late Bill Crofut, performing part of his wonderful alphabet song, “Alligator Hedgehog,” from this new CD that he finished just before he died, called “Dance on a Moonbeam.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-and-Pictures.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 01/02/2001 Poetry and Pictures for the Year Transcript There are all kinds of ways to help us mark the passage of a year’s time, some concrete or numerical, others imaginative and personal. One of the honor books from last year’s Caldecott awards, is a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Little-lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/9/2001 Comics and Fairy Tales Transcript I can’t think of a better combination of favorite things than folk tales and comics. Enlist some of our more intriguing cartoonists and illustrators like Walt Kelly, Bruce McCall, William Joyce, and Harry Bliss to adapt one of […]
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You’re hearing a little from “Nia, Nia,” a lullaby sung by Alessandra Belloni — a timeless song that’s been used for centuries to sooth restless infants and calm distressed adult nerves in the region of southern Italy called Puglia.
You’re hearing the concluding section of the first movement of Ludwig von Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony, played by Robert LaFond and his orchestra on their CD, Snoopy’s Classiks on Toys.
It’s that time of year again, when publishers are out to dazzle us with wonderful books for the children in our lives.