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The Jack Tales

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Everyman-of-Childhood-Jack.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/21/2002 The Jack Tales Transcript Everyone knows about Jack. For he is the most popular boy in children’s literature. From Jack Be Nimble to Jack and Jill. From Little Jack Horner to Jack Sprat. There’s Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk […]

Happy Birthday to the Bard

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-the-Bard.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 4/24/2002 Happy Birthday to the Bard Transcript We know very little about the life of one of the world’s best known authors, William Shakespeare, which is perhaps why the controversy continues about whether or not the historical Shakespeare, who was […]

Bill Crofut’s “Dance on a Moonbeam”

That’s the late Bill Crofut, performing part of his wonderful alphabet song, “Alligator Hedgehog,” from this new CD that he finished just before he died, called “Dance on a Moonbeam.”