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Celebrating Weston Woods

That’s Mort Schindel, the founder and guiding spirit of Weston Woods Studios, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Homer Price and Doughnut Day

That’s Homer Price’s Aunt Aggie, complaining about newfangled inventions like the doughnut machine that his Uncle Ulysses is tinkering with in the couple’s new little coffee shop on the village square in Centerberg, USA.

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/McClosky.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/15/1999 Robert McCloskey Transcript In Boston they take their ducklings very seriously. In Boston Common, there’s a larger than life-sized statue of the famous mother duck and her children from Robert McCloskey’s 1942 Caldecott award-winning picture book, Make Way for Ducklings. Every spring, parents […]