Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fabling-Around-Japan.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/18/2005 Fabling Around Japan Transcript The scene is a deserted hut on a mountain top during a very ferocious thunderstorm. Into the cabin stumble a goat and, later, a wolf. They’re both terrified of the storm, and in the dark they can’t see who […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Celebrating-Henry-David-Thoreau.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/11/2005 Henry David Thoreau Transcript It’s Henry David Thoreau’s birthday this week, an appropriate time (though any time is good) to introduce children to the workings of this original mind. A philosopher-naturalist, Thoreau offered an alternative set of values to the myth of American […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Cages-Mud-Book-and-Action-Jackson.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/6/2005 The Mud Book Transcript With full summer upon us, there are sure to be days in a child’s life when there is nothing much to do, especial if it’s been raining, and play spaces have turned to mud. But that’s also one of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Animals-of-the-Bible-The-First-Caldecott.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/16/2005 Animals of the Bible Transcript In 1938 Animals of the Bible became the first book to be awarded the Caldecott Medal given annually since then to the most distinguished picture book published in the United States. For this book, the recipient of the award, artist […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ice-Cream-at-the-Fair-in-St-Louis-1904.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 6/7/2005 Ice Cream at the Fair Transcript Throughout 2004, the city of St. Louis celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. This historic event was marked by art and history exhibits, musical concerts, and a replica of the fair’s giant […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hanna-in-the-Time-of-the-Tulips.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2005 Hana in the Time of the Tulips Transcript It’s the first days of May, a time when things suddenly begin to bloom in northern climates, a time for flowers. The ancient Romans even held a festival in the early part of May in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patchwork-Paths-and-Homemade-Love.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/22/2005 Patchwork Paths and Homemade Love Transcript In her new picture book, The Patchwork Path, A Quilt Map to Freedom, Bettye Stroud tells the story of a young African American girl, Hannah, and her father who escape from slavery in the pre-Civil-War American South. Hannah’s […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vicki-Cobb-and-Her-Science-Books-for-kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/16/2005 Vicki Cobb and Her Science Books for Kids Transcript This week at the University of Florida we’re hosting a colloquium about some of the innovative ways that being found to bring science into children’s lives. Over the coming days, we’ll be introducing you […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/My-Caldecott-Year.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/14/2005 My Caldecott Year Transcript It took a while for the books to begin arriving at my doorstep, but once they did, there was hardly a day that I didn’t come home from work to find a couple of padded mail envelopes, cardboard boxes […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Choosing-the-Caldecott-Award-Winners.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/12/2005 The Caldecott Committee Transcript Every January when the Caldecott Award for picture books is announced, it is the culmination of a lot of work, reading, and discussion by a group of 15 people who compose the committee. Of the 15 members, eight, including […]