Podcast Pick: LeVar Burton Reads I watched a little bit of Reading Rainbow as a kid. Not much, just enough to recognize the theme song and get a handful of book recommendations from host LeVar Burton.

Educators loved the format of the show and began to use it to teach. Johnson said “Reading Rainbow” provided very rich opportunities to bring knowledge to kids, which teachers treasured.

James Earl Jones was a mountain of a talent who always treated his craft with the utmost respect, from Broadway to Reading Rainbow.

“Creating Reading Rainbow” is designed to give more of Buffalo’s side of the story in convincing PBS to get behind a series designed to get children to read over the summer when they were ...

Running for 155 episodes spread over 23 years, Reading Rainbow helped guide generations of kids toward a love of reading. Now, a new documentary about the show is looking back at its creation, ...

The purpose of the show, was to encourage children to fall in love with books and reading. A new documentary film about Reading Rainbow is set to hit select theatres on March 17 th.

Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s feature documentary “Butterfly in the Sky,” about the beloved 1980’s PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow” will be released in select AMC ...

Directors Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb announced the theatrical and digital release plans for the feature documentary Butterfly in the Sky. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival ...

LeVar Burton, the actor best known for hosting "Reading Rainbow" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation," has strong words for Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters.

Reading’s Rainbow fire company, the nation’s oldest, marks 250th anniversary Former Reading fire chief William H. Rehr III, in a talk Saturday at Reading Area Firefighters Museum, said no ...