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Bright Spaces

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bright-Spaces.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/26/2005 Bright Spaces Transcript Most of our children are usually able to play in protected spaces — somewhere in our homes, neighborhoods, and schools. But for young people who are living in homeless shelters, a place for play is often non-existent or make-shift at […]

Books That Mattered: A Conversation with Martin Sandler

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-that-Mattered-Martin-Sandler.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/21/2002 A Conversation with Martin Sandler Transcript Continuing our series about children’s books that have mattered to people in their lives, we recently spoke with the Emmy-award-winning television producer and Horn Book Award-winning author, Martin Sandler about the books that have stayed with him. […]

“Daddy-O Daddy, Rare Family Songs of Woody Guthrie”

That’s Billy Bragg & The Blokes doing one of Woodie Guthrie’s songs for children, “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ” from a new CD, “Daddy-O Daddy, Rare Family Songs of Woody Guthrie.

Woody Guthrie

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Woody-Guthrie-1-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/16/2001 Woody Guthrie Transcript Woody Guthrie is best known for such folk songs as This Land is Your Land, and Pastures of Plenty. His lyrics have had no small influence on rock music, inspiring the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellancamp. […]

Woody Guthrie

That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s.