Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?
Won’t you please? Won’t you please? Please won’t you be my neighbor?
Next month, the Hoopla Huddle Book Discussion Group will read The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King. The discussion will be held online through Zoom on Monday, January 25, at 6:00 PM.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.
The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development.
If you’d like to participate in this discussion with your neighbors, please register for the Hoopla Huddle Book Discussion Group through our Online Calendar. You will receive an email with the login information for the Zoom meeting after you register.
The Good Neighbor is now available to download through Hoopla as an ebook or an audiobook. If you’d prefer a print copy of the book, you can place a hold on it through our Online Catalog.
Published on December 29, 2020.
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