My Dad ran a small indy press, so I was primed to love books. But seriously, Reading Rainbow has to be at least partially responsible for me being a writer. What a great show. When the Republicans were talking about doing in PBS in the 90s, everyone was worried about Big Bird. Me? All I thought about was my son not hearing that theme song...
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Aww. so cute!
Between 'Reading Rainbow' and 'Ghost Writer,' I was a serious PBS kid. That theme song, even today, just puts me in a really happy place.
Black nerds stand up! :-)
Between 'Reading Rainbow' and 'Ghost Writer,' I was a serious PBS kid. That theme song, even today, just puts me in a really happy place.
Black nerds stand up! :-)
PBS taught my sister and me to read long by preschool. For many years it was the only channel I watched.
My aunt worked for a major publisher in the city and sent me a book every year as a child. In a strange twist of fate, I now have a corporate discount to a publisher in the city (part of the same parent company), and this year for the first time I was able to pass on my aunt's gift to me to another child.
And let's not forget Square One.
They need to bring back The Electric Company.
I remember being about 11 or so, and realizing all of a sudden that Lavar Burton was on both Reading Rainbow, and Last Generation. It's my first real memory of the kind of psychic reorientation that often comes with figuring out that two characters you've known and loved separately are actually played by the same guy. Like Shani-O said, Happy place.