Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/When-Poems-Become-Novels.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/5/2002 Novel Poems Transcript Several years ago, if you handed a ten year old child a seven hundred page novel and asked him or her to read it – one would likely have met with an expression of sorrow and woe. But with the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/April-Fools.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/1/2002 April Fools – Holy Humor Month Transcript Today is a very important day for children all over the United States and Europe. For today is April Fools Day – so father’s and mother’s beware; that next spoon of sugar just might be salt. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cirque-du-Soleil-and-the-New-Circus.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/28/2002 Cirque du Soleil Transcript One wonders – how in this modern age of computer enhanced films and 3D amusement park rides can something as old fashioned as a circus survive? The truth is, that the circus – since it invention- has always been […]
Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve celebrating the birthday of Mickey Dolenz, one of the real believers in wonderful entertainment for young people.
Today, we interview Joseph Bruchac, Native American storyteller – and author of more than seventy books for adults and children.
Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve to take us under the sea and up in the air to celebrate the birthday of Jules Verne.
It was James Joyce’s birthday this weekend, and Kevin Shortsleeve has something to say about this famous Irish author and his gift for nonsense.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Schoolhouse-Rock.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/22/2002 Schoolhouse Rock Transcript In the early 1970s, wrapped in blankets and crunching bowls of Trix and Captain Crunch, children all over America gathered, sleepy-eyed on Saturday morning to witness the weekly delights offered by the likes of the Pink Panther, the Road Runner, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Thoughts-About-Snow.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/16/2002 Some Thoughts About Snow Transcript Children have a special relationship to snow. Perhaps there is something in the unpredictability of snowfall or its intangible magical qualities that children relate to. Like children, snow can be alternately perceived as carefree, giddy, peaceful, maddening and […]
