Tag: Poem
Poetry and Pictures for the Year
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poetry-and-Pictures.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 01/02/2001 Poetry and Pictures for the Year Transcript There are all kinds of ways to help us mark the passage of a year’s time, some concrete or numerical, others imaginative and personal. One of the honor books from last year’s Caldecott awards, is a […]
James Whitcomb Riley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Whitcomb-Riley.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/9/2000 James Whitcomb Riley Transcript Just recently, Indiana celebrated the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley, the famed Jossier writer, who was born in a log cabin in Geenfield, Indiana, on October 7th, 1849, and who became, by the time of his death in 1916, […]
Robert Louis Stevenson
Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson's poetry for children.
Jack Prelutsky
That’s Jack Prelutsky, whose birthday it is today, with part of his poem, “I am Diggin a Hole in the Ceiling.”