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The Green Mister Rogers Sara Lindey

The Green Mister Rogers By Sara Lindey

The Green Mister Rogers by Sara Lindey


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Fred Rogers wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. This book centres on the show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week 'Caring for the Environment', produced in 1990.

The Green Mister Rogers Summary

The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood by Sara Lindey

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.

About Sara Lindey

Sara Lindey is professor of English at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. She teaches widely in American literature, including environmental literature. Before her work on Fred Rogers, she published essays on nineteenth-century American print culture, particularly representations of girlhood in antislavery picture books and boys' literacy in story papers in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, American Periodicals, and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Jason King is professor of theology at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is author of Faith with Benefits: Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses and coeditor of Sex, Love, and Families: Catholic Perspectives. Currently, he edits the Journal of Moral Theology.

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NLS9781496838674
9781496838674
149683867X
The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood by Sara Lindey
New
Paperback
University Press of Mississippi
2022-03-30
188
N/A
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