"Olee, Olee, Ocean Free!" Remember that magic cry when you ran to touch home at the end of a tag, at the end of recess? Well, in a way, that's what we're doing today. We're taking a recess from Recess! after eight years on the air and over 2000 programs. We won't be gone forever, though. Recess! will be taking different forms on our website, which will still be: recess.ufl.edu. And online in the future, we'll continue doing Recess-like programs that will provide reviews, commentaries, an...| Recess! Media
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EL-Konigsburg.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/30/2007 E. L. Konigsburg Transcript At the recent Book Expo, Recess! correspondent Susan Raab spoke with the distinguished author of works for young people, E. L. Konigsburg about her new novel, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, and about one of the central themes that animates […]| Recess! Media
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Darumas-for-the-New-School-Year-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/22/2005 Daruma Dolls Transcript One of the traditional, good luck charms in Japan is the Daruma Doll, the ancient roly poly doll that can’t be knocked over, no matter how far it is pushed. The idea of this original tumbler doll is said to […]| Recess! Media
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patsy-Aldana.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/28/2007 Patsy Aldana Transcript At the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair this past spring, Susan Raab spoke with Patsy Aldana from Canada, the current president of the International Board of Books for Young People, or IBBY, about IBBY’s current initiatives for bringing books to […]| Recess! Media
You can go on the rest of that fishing trip with the incomparable Taj Mahal on a new CD collection from Music for Little People called 20 Great Kids Songs. This is a recording to have in the car for summer trips to the mountains or the country or the beach. Along the way, you can listen to Michelle Shocked’s “See the Sea,” which is as quavery and surprising as the ripples of the waves.| Recess! Media
Thomas Bewick was the finest of all English practicioners of wood engraving and was the first person to make the work of the illustrator as important, in books for children, as the text. Born in 1735, in rural England, Bewick early on showed his skill in draftsmanship by covering the hearthstones of his home with chalk drawings and filling the margins of his school books with penciled sketches. At age 14, he was apprenticed to an engraver in the town of Newcastle and later joined his master a...| Recess! Media
Remember playing jacks? Shelley Fraser Mickle does, and it's led her to bounce these ideas around.| Recess! Media
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Margaret-Quinlan.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 8/21/2007 Margaret Quinlan Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab spoke with Margaret Quinlan, the President of Peachtree Press in Atlanta about a number of their books, both fiction and non-fiction, that look at how children can understand and sometimes affect their worlds, both natural […]| Recess! Media
That's Thumper the Rabbit talking to Bambi's mother in the beautiful opening sequence of Walt Disney's 1942 film when all the gentle animals of the forest come to see the newborn deer.| Recess! Media
This pensive music was composed by the famous harpist Marisa Robles. It’s from her Narnia Suite, which she wrote in 1991 — over a decade before the release of the movie based on C. S. Lewis’s classic, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Unfortunately, this haunting music doesn’t appear in the film, but you can find this movement from it on a collection of musical works for young people called Children’s Games from Sanctuary Classics. The CD contains music by and takes its tit...| Recess! Media
