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Floyd Cooper Day to Be Celebrated Nationwide on May 6

Carissa Weiser
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A beloved Philadelphia area children's book author and illustrator who died last year will be honored with his own day on May 6: Floyd Cooper Day. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the national Children's Book Council is organizing events across the country to remember him.

(Original air-date: 5/5/22)

WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.