Tag: Picture Book
Beauty
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]
Junk Food
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Junk-Food.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 7/22/2002 Junk Food Transcript I didn’t think that anyone, except the advertising agencies, would think of making up jingles about all those things we try to get our children not to want to eat all the time. But that’s just […]
Henry David Thoreau Hikes
The “Henry” and friend the narrator is referring to are bears. And this contest is the simple premise of the lovely Weston Woods film version of D. B. Johnson’s award-winning picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Recently, we spoke with Barbara Woodhouse, director of the University of Florida's Center for Children and the Law, about one of the most memorably books of her childhood, The Country Bunny.
Mitsumasa Anno
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mitsumasa-Anno.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/19/2002 Mitsumasa Anno Transcript Tomorrow is the birthday of one of the most innovative creators of picture books for young people, the Japanese artist, Mitsumasa Anno. Born in 1926, in the small town of Tsuwana, Japan, he was trained as a teacher, and he […]
Franz Schubert
You’re hearing a little from Franz Schubert’s “Noble Waltz” No. 4. The reason the recording is so grainy is because it’s a thin, small vinyl disc that was included in a pocket inside the back cover of a small, square picture book for children called A Little Schubert by M. B. Goffstein.
Jean de Brunhof and Babar
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jean-de-Brunhof.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/11/2001 Jean de Brunhof and Babar Transcript Jean de Brunhof, who was born this week in 1899 and who became famous for his picture books about Babar the elephant, didn’t actually create the character himself. It was de Brunhof’s wife, Cecile, who first invented […]
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
A new picture book for younger children about Bessie Coleman, the first African American to become a pilot, has flown into the bookstores just in time for National Aviation Month, which is celebrated in November.
Woody Guthrie
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Woody-Guthrie-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/16/2001 Woody Guthrie Transcript Woody Guthrie is best known for such folk songs as This Land is Your Land, and Pastures of Plenty. His lyrics have had no small influence on rock music, inspiring the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellancamp. […]
Some New Books About Manners
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Manners-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2001 Some New Books About Manners Transcript Out of polite respect for National Etiquette Week, we thought wed let you know about some new books dealing with proper conduct for young people. In Harriet Ziefert’s recent picture book, Someday Well Have Very Good Manners, […]