thistlechaser: (Book with cat: rainbow)
After long, long, LONG last, my Reading Rainbow kickstarter rewards FINALLY arrived. How "lucky" am I that my package was one of the last ones to be mailed out? From their status email, about my rewards: "[they are] at the very tail end of shipping!" (italics theirs). I felt more like they were teasing me than informing me in a happy way.

As one of my rewards was a 2015 calendar, getting it mid-February was something of an issue. It had originally been promised to be here before Christmas.

Oh well. This probably sounds grumpier than I am about it. I'm totally in love with the mug (I brought it in to work so I can show it off here), and the calendar is really spiffy (has tons of authors' birthdays and book-related holidays in it). Plus I have a car decal, magnet, and some bookmarks. (Not sure what I'll do with the decal, I've never put a non-official sticker on my car before.)

Oh huh, my calendar tells me that Levar Burton's birthday is on President's Day. Learn something new every day!

Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Take a look
It's in a book
A Reading Rainbow~
thistlechaser: (Book with cat 1)
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.)

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