A review by brevitea
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

5.0

I am a young Gen-Xer. I grew up in a time before expanded cable television with 13 channel buttons on my set (no clicker). One of those buttons was devoted to input from my family's VCR. I spent *a lot* of time watching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood on my local public broadcasting network, and I loved every minute of it. Fred Rogers impacted me at a young age. He was a kind of virtual friend at a time when I had very few in real life. He made it okay to feel negative emotions, to make mistakes, to learn through failure, to grow through hardship. Until I read this book, I assumed my recollection of him was rosy-tinted by the natural naivete of childhood memories. But no! He was actually all that I remembered, and so much more. This book is a beautiful biography of a very special human.