LeVar Burton hosts the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning PBS children's series, Reading Rainbow. Designed to promote literacy, Reading Rainbow encourages children to read by bringing books to life and transporting young learners to exciting, real-life settings. Its dynamic, fast-paced, colorful animation and hip music entertain and reinforce these experiences, and help children embrace positive reading habits, instilling in them a love of learning. The series has received international acclaim, garnering more than 250 awards, including a prestigious Peabody and nine Parents' Choice awards. Each program presents a featured book along with animated sequences, original songs, special guests, live-action field trips illustrating the show's theme, and book reviews presented by young readers of other books on similar topics that viewers might enjoy.