Reading Rainbow

"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.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

Reading Rainbow

First Air Date

June 6, 1983

Last Air Date

November 10, 2006

Seasons

Episodes

155

Language

English

Production Companies

Lancit Media Productions GBH

Networks

PBS

S21E05

Show Way

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.

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