Woody Guthrie
That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s.
Johanna Spyri
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johanna-Spyri.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/12/2000 Johanna Spyri Transcript Johanna Spyri, (Spee-ree) the author of the children’s classic, Heidi, was born July 12, 1827. Heidi, of course, has been through many editions and adaptations, including several film versions in the one hundred twenty years since it was written. Heidi […]
Mary McLeod Bethune
That’s Donna Lynne Coulter, Medicine Man Ya Ya, and friends singing the opening for their tribute to the great American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, whose birthday it is today.
Chicken Run
You’re hearing a few pecks of the action from “Chicken Run,” a new film by the studio (Aardman Animations) and the director (Nick Park) that gave us “Wallace and Gromit.”
America the Beautiful
That’s the Boston-based storyteller, Brother Blue, with a few notes of his version of one of America’s most moving national songs, a song that some have called the unofficial second national anthem.
Elvis for Babies
You’re hearing a little from one of Elvis Presley’s monumental hits, “Don’t Be Cruel,” on a recent CD for very young children called “Elvis for Babies.”
Amelia’s Journal
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Amelias-Notebooks.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/30/2000 Amelia’s Notebooks Transcript There’s a wonderful series of books for girls ages 8 and up by Marissa Moss, about a kid named Amelia who keeps one of those black and white marbled notebooks. She records all the stuff that makes up a young […]
Waiting for Harry Potter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Waiting-for-Harry-Potter.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/29/2000 Waiting for Harry Potter Transcript There are such things as Harmonic Convergences in the book world–when the forces–a fine book, an excited publisher, a receptive audience, and a favorable Zeitgeist–all vibrate together. Who would have guessed that Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt’s account of […]
Mary Ann Eaverly
In our ongoing series about children’s books that have mattered to people throughout their lives, we asked Mary Ann Eaverly, a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Florida whose specialty is archaic Greek sculpture, about her favorite children’s book, Gene Stratton-Porter’s Freckles.
Edward Gorey
That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden party.