Reading Rainbow
Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
S01E07: Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
Overview
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
Episodes
S01E02 Miss Nelson Is Back
As part of his birthday celebration, LeVar gets made-up like a movie monster, and then gets involved in Harry Blackstone's magic act. Ruth Buzzi reads Miss Nelson Is Back, all about a group of rowdy...
S01E03 Bea and Mr. Jones
LeVar is already worn out after working on several scenes all day long on the production of the series. He feels he needs to take on another identity, segueing into introducing the featured book, Bea...
S01E06 Digging Up Dinosaurs
Technically not the first science-related show in its history, LeVar seeks a place where archaeologists retrieve dinosaur bones. At the end of the program, LeVar buries a time capsule, containing (among other things) a can...
S01E08 Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
In the featured book, a young boy and his family move from New York City to the Southwest and he has many misconceptions about what his new home is like.
S01E10 The Gift of the Sacred Dog
The first of many programs favoring Native Americans. In this instance, a Midwestern legend suggests how horses arrived to the tribe. Later in this episode is the song "Ancient Places, Sacred Lands" which lists several...
S01E13 Arthur's Eyes
LaVar explores seeing and our other senses, as Bill Cosby tells the story of how the young aardvark, Arthur Read acquired his pair of glasses.
S01E15 Ty's One Man Band
LeVar is ready to find music everywhere, and he does. This show includes the animation Onomatopoeia. Lou Rawls reads the story of Ty's One-Man Band, about a man who teaches a boy how to make...
Cast
LeVar Burton
Self - Host
