LeVar Burton hosts the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning PBS children's series, Reading Rainbow. Designed to promote literacy, Reading Rainbow: Social Studies Series introduces kids to interesting new people and places, explores social and cultural issues and offers a close-up look at the world around them. Its dynamic, fast-paced, colorful animation and hip music entertain and reinforce these experiences, and help children embrace positive reading habits and instill 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 in this series presents a book featuring social studies-related subjects, 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.
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