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Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Lindey, Sara
King, Jason
Li, Junlei

Paperback

Series: Children's Literature Association

Entertainment & Performing ArtsTelevisionEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 149683867X
ISBN13: 9781496838674
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Mar 10 2022
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. In his almost nine hundred episodes, Rogers pursued dramatic topics: divorce, death, war, sibling rivalry, disabilities, racism. Rogers' direct, slow, gentle, and empathic approach is supported by his superior emotional strength, his intellectual and creative courage, and his joyful spiritual confidence.

The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood centers on the show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week Caring for the Environment, produced in 1990 in coordination with the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. Unfolding against a trash catastrophe in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers advances an environmentalism for children that secures children in their family homes while extending their perspective to faraway places, from the local recycling center to Florida's coral reef. Rogers depicts animal wisdom and uses puppets to voice anxiety and hope and shows an interconnected world where each part of creation is valued, and love is circulated in networks of care. Ultimately, Rogers cultivates a practical wisdom that provides a way for children to confront the environmental crisis through action and hope and, in doing so, develop into adults who possess greater care for the environment and a capacious imagination for solving the ecological problems we face.

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