Roger Robbie, the ‘Hip-Hop Raccoon’, often encourages children to know that is important having a good relationship with the safety guard, even if the guard is a School Crossing Guard.
Since we are talking about real safety issues existing in the life of a fantasy animal character, Roger Robbie will enlighten many kids and parents to crossing guard tips that can be used when going about their regular walk crossing the street to and from school.
The Roger Robbie character was updated partly by Van Stone’s desire to bring more learning about top safety and health recommendations into the schools and the entire community.
For years now there have been lots of people who feel like school children are benefiting from their friendly crossing guards posted at traffic corners. That just gives Richard “Ricardo DaVinci” Gibson, the newest illustrator of Roger Robbie, more reason to draw the raccoon in such a way so that they’re not losing a good feeling about crossing guards at work.
“I’m excited to try to ensure that when kids see art about learning crossing guard work, they get to draw characters reflective of the real world and not just the routine safety officer, cop or crossing guard seen in drawings now,” says Gibson.
"Male and Female crossing guards, for example, used to be a certain shape or size when drawn. But today, they're younger and older, they're not angry looking or scary looking," said Van Stone, who teaches a class on "The Crossing Guard Training" for Van Stone Productions Foundation experimental crossing guard training program for kids and adults.
The new Roger Robbie animal character should inspire many youths and adults to want to train to become a crossing guard one day. And the illustrations will help students to learn how fields such as animation, art, writing, music, film, acting, dance, photography, videography and others can blend in with crossing guard action.
The character of the crossing guard has changed a lot. Animal characterization like Roger Robbie will help learning about safety become more fun.
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