Being Canadian, I didn’t grow up on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.
Yet not long after I moved to the United States, I had heard
many praises of both the show and the man behind the screen. His
positive legacy is that strong. And so, I felt curious to read
Let’s Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers. According to the
preface, Fred Roger’s sister “was adopted into our family when I
was eleven years old”. Her adoption knocked him out of the elite
position of being an only child. “Understanding all of that came
very gradually for me–and for my sister.” Hence, the book Let’s
Talk About It: Adoption, in which Fred Rogers invites parents
and their children to talk about adoption. Now something you
need to keep in mind is that Mister Roger’s Neighborhood was
aimed at young children from ages two to five. This is also
about the age I’d consider appropriate for Let’s Talk About It:
Adoption. Most pages have one sentence or sometimes or even only
half a sentence. The page with the most text has only four
sentences. The p