Tag: Nursery Rhymes
“We All Fall Down”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/We-All-Fall-Down.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/18/2006 “We All Fall Down” Transcript Have you ever stopped to consider how many times you fell down as a child? When you’re a kid, you seem to fall down from, or out of, or off of, just about everything: bikes, trees, swing sets, […]
Mother Goose Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2006 Mother Goose Day Transcript It was Mother Goose Day yesterday — a cause for celebration in many towns across the country, where parents push brightly decorated baby carriages and strollers and pull wagons loaded with children dressed in their May finery or in […]
Old Mother Hubbard and the Dog Days
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Old-Mother-Hubbard-and-The-Dog-Days.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/27/2002 Old Mother Hubbard and the Dog Days Transcript Here we are, in the midst of the summer dog days and I am going to take this opportunity to honor a dog who gets much less credit and respect than he deserves. This dog […]
Yankee Doodle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Yankee-Doodle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2002 Yankee Doodle Transcript Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony. Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. If you think about it, it is a little bit odd that the unofficial American anthem is a nonsensical nursery rhyme. […]
“Welcome to the World,” A Valentine for Newborns
You’re hearing the Baka Pygmie people from the forests of Cameroon with parents teaching their children a nursery rhyme about what the heart says.
James Joyce’s Nonsense
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.
Counting Out Rhymes
It's springtime, and the playgrounds are finally un-thawed and ready for games. Here's Kevin Shortsleeve with some thoughts about one of the ways kids choose up sides.
Eve Merriam’s Inner City Nursery Rhymes
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Merriam-and-Mother-Goose.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/11/2001 Eve Merriam’s Inner City Nursery Rhymes Transcript In 1969, Eve Merriam published a collection of verse entitled, The Inner City Mother Goose. The book was a series of Mother Goose parodies of biting criticism of some our society’s most difficult problems; violence, racism, […]
Sarah Josepha Hale
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sarah-Josepha-Hale.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/25/2000 Sarah Josepha Hale Transcript Sarah Josepha Hale was born on a New Hampshire farm in 1788. She operated a school for seven years before marrying a lawyer and giving birth to five children. Her husband died in 1822 and Hale became a writer […]
Frank L. Baum
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/L-Frank-Baum.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2000 Frank L. Baum Transcript It’s the real wizard of Oz’s birthday today. Born in 1856, L. Frank Baum was the frail son of well-to-do and indulgent parents who lived on an picture book, gentleman’s farm near Syracuse, New York. Growing up, Baum always […]