Children's Books Spotlight Series Ep. #215: Creating Reading Rainbow

Throughout childhood, kids experience a jumble of emotions like disappointment, worry, and helplessness as pressures they don't fully understand loom large in their developing world. 😞

Therefore, finding a way to unravel those feelings can help them connect to what's bubbling beneath the surface. With the love and support of caring adults and life's warm lessons found within a good book, even the toughest times can shrink down to a manageable size for a child's brave heart. 💖

And so, one iconic rainbow is empowering children to take a look in a book, reminding them that the weight of those big feelings can find a voice, a friend, and maybe even a solution nestled between each turn of a page. 👦🏿👦🏽👦🏻📖👧🏻👧🏽👧🏿

Author Barbara Irwin, Emmy Award-Winning Co-Creator of Reading Rainbow, Tony Buttino Sr., and Reading Rainbow Producer, Pam Johnson, join our John Masiulionis and Little Forrest on Episode #215 of PR From The Heart’s Children’s Books Spotlight Series to share the release of their new book, Creating Reading Rainbow (published by Rowman & Littlefield), the origin story of the beloved, award-winning PBS children's television series, the process of selecting LeVar Burton as the host of the show, the challenges the program faced over the years as the media landscape of children's programming changed, the indelible impact of Reading Rainbow on promoting children's literacy and inspiring a love of reading, plus much more. 🌈

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