Reading Rainbow won Parent and Teacher’s Choice awards, Television and Critic’s Choice awards, NAACP image awards, a George Foster Peabody award, twenty six daytime Emmy awards and trophies in ...

Actor and entertainer LeVar Burton took to the stage to a standing ovation while being honored at Friday's 6th annual Eliot-Pearson Awards for Excellence in Children's Media in Distler Performance ...

Tony Buttino, a co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning children’s series “Reading Rainbow,” wanted to be careful. He had to be cajoled into admitting that he was a little disappointed that the ...

A co-production of Nebraska ETV (now Nebraska Public Media) and WNED-TV in Buffalo, N.Y., Reading Rainbow hit the air in July 1983. It would go on to earn 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody and ...

After many years of dedication, the first episode of “Reading Rainbow” premiered on July 11, 1983. It went on to become one of PBS’s most successful and beloved shows—winning 26 Emmys, a Peabody Award ...

Take a look, it's in a...documentary...a Reading Rainbow! The children's literary TV show Reading Rainbow is the subject of the upcoming documentary Butterfly in the Sky. Described as "inspiring ...

Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s feature documentary “Butterfly in the Sky,” about the beloved 1980’s PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow” will be released in select AMC ...