Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers

by Mark Leon Collins (Editor), Margaret Mary Kimmel (Editor), David Newell (Foreword)

Updated edition featuring a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeely" Newell.

The pieces in this volume address the enduring influence and importance of Fred Roger's work in children's television. The contributors, representing a wide range of disciplines--art, psychology, medicine, social criticism, theology, music, and communications--include David Bianculli, Lynette Friedrick Cofer, Nancy E. Curry, Ellen Galinsky, Geroge Gerbner, William Guy, Lynn Johnson, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Susan Linn, Mary Rawson, Mark Shelton, Reoderick Townley, Paula Lawrence Wehmiller, and Eugenia Zukerman interviewing Yo-Yo Ma.

Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's The Children's Corner, which became part of the the Saturday morning lineup on NBC in 1955 and 1956.

It was after Fred Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963, with a special charge of serving children and their families through television, that he developed what became the award-winning PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.  

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Biography

270 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

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Reviews

[Matthew]

Each book I read by and about Fred Rogers and his mission to educate and serve children only buttresses my belief that he is simply one of the greatest men to ever live.

[Erin Goettsch]

I read this slowly, an essay a month or so, over the course of a year. Some of these are dryer than others, but overall this book is fascinating insight about Fred Rogers and his show, and full of wisdom. Recommend. (Disclaimer: I'm becoming sort of a Rogers evangelist in the last few years. I'm far from an objective reader here.)

[Katie]

This is a collection of essays about Mr. Rogers. Let me just say that I LOVE Mr. Rogers. I was so happy when my daughter was old enough to watch him just to have the excuse to. It brings back fond memories of my childhood watching him. This book has inspired me to read more about him.

[Mills College Library]

791.45028 M67896 1996

[Terrence]

Very interesting essays about Fred Rogers and the impact that his work has had on several generations of American children and their families.

[Brian]

It felt a little too academic for a man who acted more down to earth to meet people where they were at than putting people off by showing off how smart he was