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Road Runner Cartoons

With April Fools Day approaching tomorrow, Kevin Shortsleeve has been trying to catch up with one this country's quickest tricksters.

The Cowboy Hero

If you're a fan of the American cowboy and have been since childhood, you'll want to lean over the fence and listen to Kevin Shortsleeve.

Dr. Seuss, In Memoriam

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/In-Memorium-Dr-Suess.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/24/2003 Dr. Seuss, In Memoriam Transcript Dear Dr. Seuss, wherever you are, Whether you’re drifting off Zither or floating off Zarr, I just want you to know I miss you so much. Yes ever so muchly. Oh muchly, so much. I asked several Sneeches […]

Native American Day with Joseph Bruchac

You have been listening to a Seneca Indian canoe song, as performed by Joseph Bruchac, Native American storyteller – and author of more than seventy books for adults and children.

Children’s Books of Switzerland

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Swiss-Childrens-Books.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/4/2003 Children’s Books of Switzerland Transcript Switzerland is home to a rich tradition of children’s literature. The Swiss, in fact, invented the annual, a gift of engravings and verses that were given to children on the New Year. In the old days it was […]

Francis Hopkinson

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Revolutionary-Verses.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/8/2003 Francis Hopkinson Transcript In your studies of the American Revolution, it is unlikely that you spent much time on Francis Hopkinson. Hopkinson was the author of satirical and nonsensical essays that simultaneously delighted his allies and infuriated his enemies. A signer of the […]

The Day Alice Was Written

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventing-Alice.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2003 The Day Alice Was Written Transcript Published in 1865, the bizarre and nonsensical Alice in Wonderlandmarks the moment when literature for children became something more than nursery rhymes and moral tales. It is amazing to think that a good deal of that story was […]

Casey at the Bat

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Story-of-Casey-at-the-Bat.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/4/2003 Casey at the Bat Transcript Ernest Thayer did not start out as a baseball fan. He was most interested in pragmatic philosophy. Yet he had a humorous side and an ear for doggerel. And so he found himself editor of the Harvard Lampoon in the […]

Children’s Books from Germany

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Books-from-Germany.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/19/2003 Children’s Books from Germany Transcript In Germany, literature for children has a rich history. The first picture book, in fact, was the work of the German educational reformer Johan Comenius, who in 1658, published The Orbis Sensualium Pictus which roughly translated means A World of Things […]

Ian Fleming

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ian-Fleming.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/10/2003 Ian Fleming Transcript Ian Flemming, the author of the original James Bond novels, once said of himself that he had never grown out of his adolescence. Whether or not this is true, it is possible that Flemming’s greatest character, James Bond, derives much […]