Julie Soebekti is a Senior Producer for 9 Story Media Group, the award-winning animation studio that partners with The Fred Rogers Company. She shares her thoughts and some of the highlights she's experienced as part of the Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood team.

Today, March 20th, is Fred Rogers’ birthday. Here’s a video to remind you of all the times Mister Rogers welcomed us into his Neighborhood.

Mister Rogers wrote that song to help children know that loving isn’t just one-sided, from grownups to children, but that children themselves have so many wonderful ways to say “I love you.”  Watch how he talked and sang about that in this Neighborhood video.  It's full of caring messages for Val

Mister Rogers reads a story "No One is Exactly Like Me."

Here's a fun free game on PBSKIDS.org that invites you to help solve Cases. Ms. O explains:

Odd Squad scientists attending a Lab-Con event have their minds controlled by an evil scientist. All except Oscar, who accidentally drops his mind control pin just before activation.

Can you answer these five trivia questions from The Fred Rogers Company?

Here's a moment from "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" when the class surprises Teacher Harriet on her birthday.

Waiting in long lines can be stressful. Whether you're shopping for the perfect holiday gift or, if you're Peg and you find yourself on the Purple Planet, waiting with your pet cat for the Yellow Store to open. Here is a musical moment from "The Long Line Problem." 

Fred Rogers received a media request to answer the following question in 50 words or less: "What would you do if you were elected President of the United States?"  Here is how he responded, followed by his original, hand-written response.

Teacher Harriet welcomes Daniel Tiger on his first visit to school.

This month, Hedda Sharapan celebrates 50 years since she began working for Fred Rogers. We asked her to reminisce about what it was like what she first applied for a job:

Mister Rogers shows his television neighbor what it's like to ride a school bus and talks about when he first learned to read.

Mister Rogers asks first-graders to talk about what happened on their first day of school.  

Here's a clip from an episode of "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood at night."  Daniel Tiger holds his baby sister Margaret's hand so she is not so afraid of fireflies.

This summer PBS KIDS features episodes of "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" that encourage families to go outside and play. The series recently won a Parents Choice Gold Award. Learn more about the program.

We asked Hedda Sharapan, who joined The Fred Rogers Company (then called Family Communications) in October 1966, to recount her favorite Daniel Tiger moment on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Happy Pick Strawberries Day!  We offer this video clip from "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood."  

In a 1999 interview, Mister Rogers told us why he named his most royal puppet King Friday XIII:

On May 17, 1992, Fred Rogers delivered the Opening Invocation for the Commencement Ceremony at Boston University. From the audience response, it was clear to Fred that many in attendance had grown up watching the Neighborhood.

With Mother's Day approaching, we thought you'd like to hear Mister Rogers talk about how his mother said "I love you."  His mother knitted the sweaters he wore on the program. As you can hear on this Neighborhood video, there was another, more personal reason why Fred wore those sweaters.

Even though he's known as a four-year-old on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger's lineage began 62 years ago this month when Mister Rogers first created him in April 1954 for a Pittsburgh public television s

Here are highlights from two of the four western Pennsylvania YMCAs that held  "Be My Neighbor Day" this past March 19, 2016.

Since today is National Walk to Work Day, we thought you might enjoy this video of Mister Rogers walking his dog around his neighborhood.

Joanne Rogers, wife of Fred Rogers, rode in the WPXI Holiday Parade this past weekend. She told Fred Rogers Company staff how excited she was to be a part of it all, saying, "I've never ridden in a parade before."

Francis Clemons visited The Fred Rogers Company today (10/5/15) to say hello to friends who worked with him on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Enjoy the music of Ellis Marsalis and three of his sons, Branford, Delfeayo, and Jason offer their interpretation of the Fred Rogers original composition "Sometimes Isn't Always."

Volunteers from Pittsburgh’s Center of Life held a clean-up day at Lewis Park in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section and children nationwide will be able to see the organization’s community efforts as The Fred Rogers Company taped the event for one of the short live-action segments on its hit PBS pres

With Father's Day approaching, we thought it would be fun to watch two clips from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In the first Fred's younger son, James (Jamie) visits and helps his dad make paper hats.

Fred Rogers’ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" song was an invitation – an invitation to be close. To share thoughts and feelings. To talk about things that matter. That’s what he did for more than forty years on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. And in response to that invitation, we received many, many letters over the years. As Fred said ” … to me (it was) a way people have of saying, ‘Yes, I will be your neighbor…and here’s something I’d like to tell you that matters to me.”