How Learning Science Is Catching Up To Mr. Rogers [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 8/9/184:00 AM

Editor's note on Aug. 8, 2018: This piece has been substantially updated from a version published in 2014.

A solemn little boy with a bowl haircut is telling Mr. Rogers that his pet got hit by a car. More precisely, he's confiding this to Daniel Striped Tiger, the hand puppet that, Rogers' wife, Joanne, says, "pretty much was Fred."

"That's scary," says Daniel/Fred. He asks for a hug. The boy hugs the tiger. Not a dry eye in the house.

That scene is from Won't You Be My Neighbor, the hit documentary airing across the country with a 99 percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

[For more on this story by ANYA KAMENETZ, go to https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08...hing-up-to-mr-rogers]

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