Tag: Valentine’s Day
Mistletoe and Valentine’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mistletoe-and-Valentines-Day.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 2/14/2007 Mistletoe and Valentine’s Day Transcript Valentine’s Day this year brings back memories of our last holiday season, when my five-year-old granddaughter found out that if she went around the house holding a sprig of mistletoe over her head, she’d get kisses. Now since […]
Valentine’s Day with the Beatles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Valentines-Day-with-the-Beatles.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/14/2005 Valentine’s Day with the Beatles Transcript It’s Valentine’s Day, a day for flowers, and chocolates, and, of course, for observations about love — like eight-year-old Dave who says, “Love will find you even if you are trying to hide from it. I been […]
Korean Valentines
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Kinds-of-Valentines-in-South-Korea.mp3 Author Cathlena Martin Air Date 4/14/2004 Korean Valentines Transcript Two months ago on February 14, Americans celebrated Valentine’s Day. Some people feel that this is a ridiculous holiday promoted largely by the greeting card, flower, and candy industries, while others cherish it as a day of love and caring. […]
Valentine’s Day and the Oracles of the Playground
It's Valentine's Day, and Fiona Barnes has some reflections on children's cherished lore of love.
Puppy Love
Valentine's Day tomorrow has Shelley Fraser Mickle thinking about those infatuations we call "puppy love."
“Welcome to the World,” A Valentine for Newborns
You’re hearing the Baka Pygmie people from the forests of Cameroon with parents teaching their children a nursery rhyme about what the heart says.
Tent Boy
It's Valentine's Day, and here's Barry Stewart Mann with a story about love, and play, and imagination.
Esther Howland, Valentine Entrepreneur
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Esther-Howland.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/13/2001 Esther Howland, Valentine Entrepreneur Transcript Esther Howland was the first person to take seriously the business of elaborate handmade valentines. As a teenager, in 1847 she received her first Valentine from England. It had an elaborate border of fine lace paper, and was […]
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 […]
Shelley’s Valentines
Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering, just in time for Valentine's Day.