"Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high
Take a look, it's in a book"
If you recogize these lyrics then you, like me, were a watcher of the PBS program Reading Rainbow hosted by Levar Burton (AKA Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation). Remember this?:
Sadly that show will be going off the air after a 26 year long run on Friday.
Ok so I didn't know that show was even still on but it was my favorite show as a kid and helped me develop a love of reading and I am sure it did the same for a lot of kids.
If you are feeling nostolgic, here is a clip from that show from 1983 featuring an awesomely bad song about checking out library books. That Levar Burton has some moves!:
6 comments:
Wow, major blast from my childhood past. I was a Reading Rainbow fan too. And oddly enough, I was just wondering if this show was still on. Like, yesterday.
Really? Now you know and knowing is half the battle! I wonder what the other half is?
the other half is lying. or maybe running away.
ha!
The other half is turning double agent and ratting out your friends.
I loved this show growing up. I remember an episode in Hawaii where he visited a ceramic artist that fired their pots in wood coals.
One more bit of nostalgia.
I still remember the theme song like it was yesterday..."take a look, it's in a book..." :)
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