Tag: Poetry
Kids’ Valentines Poems
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Valentines-Poems.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/14/2000 Kids’ Valentine’s Poems Transcript Several years ago I gave a talk about writing for the children at an elementary school, just a few days after Valentine’s Day. I happened to have my idea book with me, which I showed to them. In it […]
Carl Sandburg
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Carl-Sandburg.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/6/2000 Carl Sandburg Transcript It’s Carl Sandburg’s birthday today. He was born on a corn-husk-filled mattress in 1878 in the prairie town of Galesburg, Illinois, to Swedish immigrant parents. “I don’t know who my ancestors were,” he once joked, “but we’ve been descending for […]
For the New Babies of the Millennium
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-the-New-Babies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/3/2000 Happy New Year Typography with Fireworks in Night Sky For the New Babies of the Millennium Transcript In Japan, during the first days of the new year, the Kakizome festival takes place; it’s is dedicated to putting the first marks on paper for […]
First Snow, Magic Snow
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Snow-Magic-Snow.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/22/1999 First Snow, Magic Snow Transcript It’s the first day of winter today, the time of the Winter Solstice, the ancient days of Yule, the darkest night of the year. It’s also the perfect time for the first snow to fall. In Russian villages, […]
Robert Louis Stevenson
Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson's poetry for children.
Teen Read Week 2
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-NYE.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/19/1999 Teen Read Week Transcript We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in the world of children’s culture. One of the areas in which teens seem to be reading and writing more than ever is poetry. A new selection of poems […]
Books That Last
https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-That-Last.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/22/1999 Books That Last Transcript This is John Cech for Recess!, and we’re speaking today with Mrs. Delphine Jackson of Gainesville, Florida. She’s the director of the Willie Jackson Youth Foundation and a bookstore for children called The African Violet. I wonder if you could tell about some of the books […]
Jack Prelutsky
That’s Jack Prelutsky, whose birthday it is today, with part of his poem, “I am Diggin a Hole in the Ceiling.”