Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your

Every question a child or parent asks is important, and no one understands this better than the television Neighbor who has visited our homes for more than two decades. In this collection of letters and replies, Mister Rogers encourages parents, grandparents, and teachers to cherish the questions and comments that come from their children. With sincerity and sensitivity, real-life issues are addressed in chapters arranged by theme - the world, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, feelings and fears, television, family relationships, and death. Based on his lifelong studies in child development, Fred Rogers offers a thoughtful perspective on childhood and parenting. Dear Mister Rogers is an inspiration to parents and educators and a delight for all those interested in the unique way children see the world and wonder about it.

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was a producer, writer, magician, puppeteer, minister, husband, and father who began working in children’s television in the 1950s and created the PBS program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He pioneered “programming that spoke, with respect, to the concerns of early childhood, not as adults see it but as children feel it.” For his work, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Peabody Award, and numerous other honors. The Television Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, and the Smithsonian Institution displays one of his sweaters as a “treasure of American history.” He founded Family Communications, Inc., now Fred Rogers Productions, a not-for-profit company that continues to develop programming, special projects, and materials that help children learn and grow, including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

xi

Are you real?

1

(14)

Do you have a job?

15

(16)

Does it ever rain in your Neighborhood?

31

(26)

How long is a minute?

57

(14)

Sometimes it's hard to behave

71

(14)

I am scared of spiders and monsters

85

(14)

My brother copies everything I do

99

(26)

Today my dog died

125

(22)

Whys

147

(32)

How did you get your face on all our pennies?

179

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Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood? Letters to Mister Rogers

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