A review by calistareads
Fred's Big Feelings: The Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers by Laura Renauld
5.0
I love the artwork used to tell the story in this. I also love the focus on expressing ones feelings. One of the lines is: " Worry, fretted and fussed... and faded Sadness wailed and whimpered... and waned. Anger crashed and clattered... and calmed." Some those words bring up the emotions.
This is a great story. Fred was a lonely kid with asthma. His grandfather helped him with is self-esteem saying "You made this day a really special day just by being yourself... and I happen to like you just the way you are." Those are beautiful words.
Fred made a show to help kids express feelings and find positive ways to deal with them.
The pace of the show is slow as everything was back in the 70s and 80s. We tried to get the kids to watch a show we found and they were bored and wouldn't watch it. It was on Amazon and they only had his 1st season which is even slower. Daniel Tiger's show is better and they would watch that.
Things are so different now. When I was a kid, there wasn't a whole lot of programming for kids. There was saturday morning cartoons and then there was PBS Sesame Street, Mister Rogers and Electric Company. Every day I couldn't wait to see those programs. After school was a pre-teen stuff like drama, but not for kids. There were only 4 channels where I was. Cable came in the mid-80s for us and then Nickelodeon happened with kids stuff all day. Now, there are 100s of kid shows on demand anytime you feel like it waiting to be checked out. It's not just one choice, you can like any number of shows. Netflix, Amazon, they all have some great kids shows and some not so great ones, but you can see them anytime. It's such a difference and the pacing is fast and keeps your attention. How different it is now.
What I found was that I had to learn patience. My show only came on at a set time. The show forced the pacing to be slow. I didn't have a whole lot of choice at first. Niece and Nephew never waited. Just waiting for the show to cue up, they would be yelling to hurry up. It was very different and it was any time they felt like it. I don't think they learned any patience with that. I still see them have a hard time with patience and they still want everything now. They'll learn patience in other ways, true, but life is very different today than it was. It also doesn't bring a generation together. In the 50s if was Howdy Doody, or Mickey Mouse club, in my day is was the muppets and Mister Rogers and later it was Elmo and Barney. Everyone sort of knew the culture. Now, everyone watches their own stuff and it doesn't bring together a generation. There isn't one show everyone talks about, but a group of friends will talk about a show and to join a group you go and watch the show. I find it so interesting.
Anyway... This book is fabulous and gives a great history of Mister Rogers. I watched this show daily for 4 or 5 years and I loved it. I love what Fred stands for and this is a great history on the man and how he came up with his show that got him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. It even goes into his trip to congress and how he saved funding for PBS.
It will keep people's attention.
This is a great story. Fred was a lonely kid with asthma. His grandfather helped him with is self-esteem saying "You made this day a really special day just by being yourself... and I happen to like you just the way you are." Those are beautiful words.
Fred made a show to help kids express feelings and find positive ways to deal with them.
The pace of the show is slow as everything was back in the 70s and 80s. We tried to get the kids to watch a show we found and they were bored and wouldn't watch it. It was on Amazon and they only had his 1st season which is even slower. Daniel Tiger's show is better and they would watch that.
Things are so different now. When I was a kid, there wasn't a whole lot of programming for kids. There was saturday morning cartoons and then there was PBS Sesame Street, Mister Rogers and Electric Company. Every day I couldn't wait to see those programs. After school was a pre-teen stuff like drama, but not for kids. There were only 4 channels where I was. Cable came in the mid-80s for us and then Nickelodeon happened with kids stuff all day. Now, there are 100s of kid shows on demand anytime you feel like it waiting to be checked out. It's not just one choice, you can like any number of shows. Netflix, Amazon, they all have some great kids shows and some not so great ones, but you can see them anytime. It's such a difference and the pacing is fast and keeps your attention. How different it is now.
What I found was that I had to learn patience. My show only came on at a set time. The show forced the pacing to be slow. I didn't have a whole lot of choice at first. Niece and Nephew never waited. Just waiting for the show to cue up, they would be yelling to hurry up. It was very different and it was any time they felt like it. I don't think they learned any patience with that. I still see them have a hard time with patience and they still want everything now. They'll learn patience in other ways, true, but life is very different today than it was. It also doesn't bring a generation together. In the 50s if was Howdy Doody, or Mickey Mouse club, in my day is was the muppets and Mister Rogers and later it was Elmo and Barney. Everyone sort of knew the culture. Now, everyone watches their own stuff and it doesn't bring together a generation. There isn't one show everyone talks about, but a group of friends will talk about a show and to join a group you go and watch the show. I find it so interesting.
Anyway... This book is fabulous and gives a great history of Mister Rogers. I watched this show daily for 4 or 5 years and I loved it. I love what Fred stands for and this is a great history on the man and how he came up with his show that got him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. It even goes into his trip to congress and how he saved funding for PBS.
It will keep people's attention.