Reading Rainbow
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Now is a good time to read Green River Running Red. RIP Ann Rule. Fantastical history with Richard Nixon. This is not…
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The Reading Rainbow Industrial Complex
By now just about everyone has probably heard of the Kickstarter to bring back iconic children’s television show Reading Rainbow. News reports on the millions raised by the campaign are often outdated before they’re even published ($3.2m as of Sunday…
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Reading Rainbow: The Next Generation
If you or your kids have been near a TV in the past few decades, you probably went gaga for Reading Rainbow, the PBS children’s show hosted by LeVar Burton that encouraged young people to read. The show is no…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
This week, the book blogs have been talking about the future of reading and literature, which leads me to believe that they don’t think it’s dead. I don’t believe them. The sad truth is that they’re taking Reading Rainbow away…