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Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
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.
Season 1
15 Episodes
June 6, 1983
Season 2
5 Episodes
January 1, 1984
Season 3
5 Episodes
July 1, 1985
Season 4
10 Episodes
June 23, 1986
Season 5
10 Episodes
June 22, 1987
Season 6
10 Episodes
August 15, 1988
Season 7
10 Episodes
July 3, 1989
Season 8
5 Episodes
September 10, 1990
Season 9
10 Episodes
September 16, 1991
Season 10
10 Episodes
October 5, 1992
Season 11
10 Episodes
October 11, 1993
Season 12
10 Episodes
October 3, 1994
Season 13
5 Episodes
October 2, 1995
Season 14
5 Episodes
October 8, 1995
Season 15
5 Episodes
October 7, 1996
Season 16
5 Episodes
April 7, 1997
Season 17
5 Episodes
October 5, 1998
Season 18
6 Episodes
October 23, 2000
Season 19
4 Episodes
September 2, 2002
Season 20
5 Episodes
December 15, 2004
Season 21
5 Episodes
November 6, 2006
In addition to discussing accomplishing difficult tasks, LeVar profiles the New York children's theater group Tada, as they prepare auditions for their newest show. Richard Gear reads The Biggest Test in the Universe, a story about a grade school class having anxiety over an annual aptitude test.
LeVar discusses different rites of passage in growing up. The book "I Lost My Tooth in Africa" is read about a young girl who loses her first tooth while visiting her father's family in Africa, and how the tooth fairy tradition is different in other countries. We visit with some young people who are having their first dental appointment, and LeVar discusses other culture's customs regarding loose teeth. In another rite of passage, a friend of LeVar's celebrates her 15th birthday with a Quincenara ceremony.
LeVar profiles Children For Children, a New York based youth organization that creates care packages for relief to children affected by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Elizabeth Jute reads a story about a US penpal who sends care packages to her friend in war-torn Holland after WWII.
James Avery reads a story written by identical twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber, who became professional football players, and how they learned the importance of teamwork when they played together in junior high.
As LeVar helps his wife and daughter construct his family tree, Diahann Carroll narrates Show Way, in which the author chronicles her family back to her Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother, who was a slave in the South. Through traditions passed down to each generation, her family learned to sew "Show Way" quilts that were secretly maps designed to help slaves escape to the north to freedom, and how her relatives taught her to keep up with the love of quilting to retain family history.
