Friday, August 28, 2009
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY, I CAN GO TWICE AS HIGH: Reading Rainbow will end its 26-year run on Public Broadcasting today as the third longest-running kids' show in PBS history, behind only Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. As the linked story points out, while other PBS shows like Sesame Street and Electric Company emphasized the tools of reading, Rainbow took a different approach, emphasizing the joy of reading, as the original theme sequence illustrates. The official site has a list of every book featured on the show, and I'm guessing we have fond memories of many of them.
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