Reading Rainbow
1983 · 21 seasons · 155 episodes · Kids
“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.
Why it's worth watching
Exceptional educational program that sparks genuine love of reading and learning. Each episode thoughtfully explores themes from children's literature in creative, engaging ways that inspire curiosity, imagination, and discovery.
What it praises
Learning, reading, imagination, discovery, wonder, the transformative power of books and ideas.
For discernment
This genuinely excels at its one job: LeVar Burton's calm, unhurried invitation into books cultivates a real appetite for reading and curiosity about the wider world, and its gentleness is a rest from frantic modern children's programming. The only thing worth a Christian parent's notice is that its awe, at nature, science, and human achievement, is framed entirely without reference to the Creator behind any of it, and its book selections carry a mainstream secular outlook. Nothing here is objectionable; it simply won't point a child toward God on its own, so let it sit within a fuller diet.
- WorldviewWonder at nature and human achievement is presented in wholly secular terms, with no reference to a Creator.
Cast
LeVar Burton
Self - Host
Ruby Dee
Self - Narrator (voice)
Arnold Stang
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fred Newman
Self - Narrator (voice)
Vincent Gardenia
Self - Narrator (voice)
Michael Ansara
Self - Narrator (voice)
Linda Gelman
Narrator (voice)
James Avery
Self - Narrator (voice)
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