Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-the-New-Babies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/3/2000 Happy New Year Typography with Fireworks in Night Sky For the New Babies of the Millennium Transcript In Japan, during the first days of the new year, the Kakizome festival takes place; it’s is dedicated to putting the first marks on paper for […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marketing-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/29/1999 Marketing Childhood Transcript It seems that each week, in major newspapers or magazines, someone is doing an article about how much money is to be made on the merchandise of childhood. This fall alone, we’ve had the Harry Potter books phenomenon — a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Snow-Magic-Snow.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/22/1999 First Snow, Magic Snow Transcript It’s the first day of winter today, the time of the Winter Solstice, the ancient days of Yule, the darkest night of the year. It’s also the perfect time for the first snow to fall. In Russian villages, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Little-Engine-That-Could.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/8/1999 The Little Engine That Could Transcript Once, at a very scholarly conference, I met someone who told me, when he discovered that I was interested in children’s books, that there was one book that had mattered most to him in his life. Every […]
Perhaps you think you’re hearing a recent recording of farm animals, but this is really a very rare children’s book from the late 19th century called The Speaking Picture Book.
We’re listening to a little of the closing day concert for a week-long workshop that Mr. Johnnie Billington, a Master Folk Artist from the Mississippi Delta, has been holding here at the University of Florida to teach middle-school students how to play the blues.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/School-Lunch-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/13/1999 School Lunch Week Transcript It’s School Lunch Week and the kids on the playground aren’t singing about the joys of macaroni and cheese or yogurt and fruit, or even pizza with four toppings. When I asked them what they’d like for lunch — […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pledge-of-Allegiance.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/8/1999 Pledge of Allegiance Transcript Some folks in California are trying to revive a tradition today that began back in 1892, when the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by schoolchildren across America in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of what was then referred […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mike-Mulligan.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/6/1999 Mike Mulligan Transcript I am standing at a part of the Big Dig near the Haymarket in Downtown Boston where they’re rebuilding a major link in the interstate highway system underground, something that might even be beyond the power of those champion diggers, […]
Today, Elaine Needelman is here to talk about the hottest new children’s television shows, including Arthur and Bear in the Big Blue House.