Support Reading Rainbow!

[thistlechaser]

While I'm not enamored with Kickstarter, when I saw this one, I had to back it.

Bring Reading Rainbow back for kids everywhere, and free for kids in need!

While watching the video, I was keeping an eye on supporters, and decided to pause it to try to be the 50,000th person backing it. So close!

49,999
Backers
$2,228,798
pledged of $1,000,000 goal

I did the $35 level because I love fridge magnets. I really, really hope it's a Reading Rainbow one and not a generic Kickstarter one. It didn't ask me which I wanted (bumper sticker and the magnet were choices at $35), so I hope there's an email later.

I've always loved Reading Rainbow. I'm very glad that kids will be able to experience it as well. Hopefully it will spark the love for reading in some of them. :)

I know they've met blown their goal out of the water, but I'm sure that money donated will still be put to good use.

I'm SO going to get the 2015 Reading Rainbow calendar! (Edit: Oops, drat, the calendar is a Kickstarter exclusive. Donating $175 to get it is a little rich for my blood.)

Comments

[postingwhore.livejournal.com]

What exactly is Reading Rainbow? It's such a thing, and I read the wiki page for it, but I still don't really understand the format of the show....

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It's a show aimed at children. LeVar Burton (from Star Trek, Roots, and other places) hosted it. Each episode had a theme (like space, friends, puppies, whatever). Some "guest star" (a random, normal child) would read a book out loud about that theme, then there would be a "field trip", were LeVar went someplace to explain more about that theme. It was always interesting stuff, even for adults (like for space, they filmed on the set of the Enterprise). At the end of the episode, there would be a section telling you about more books if you liked that subject.

Basically it was a way to engage kids in reading, but it was done in such an intelligent way that it was entertaining for adults as well.

Edit: It really made a big impact on a lot of now-adults (and then-adults, too). It hasn't been on the air since 2009, and the last ep I saw was likely years before that, but I still remember them well. On the space/Enterprise one, the camera "happened to" encounter Worf. He was in his costume/makeup and he sort of growled at the camera "I take very big steps!" and he strode off. (He was very tall, so he did in fact take big steps.)