{"id":4903,"date":"2013-09-24T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2013-09-28T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T02:08:24","slug":"reading-rainbow-returns-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/24\/reading-rainbow-returns-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"READING RAINBOW Returns Yea!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/articles\/reading-rainbow-returns-as-app\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from BOOKish<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"name\">&#8216;Reading Rainbow&#8217; Returns as App<\/h1>\n<p>By Margaret Bristol and Natalie Zutter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfGhfI_NwcA\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For 26 years, the beloved television show &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; aired on PBS, each episode offering new adventures and series book recommendations. The show was critically acclaimed (26 Emmys!) and host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/authors\/levar-burton\/d3e45d6b-9b1a-457e-8bea-8ce95788bf73\" target=\"_blank\">LeVar Burton<\/a>&#8211;not to mention an addictive theme song&#8211;became an integral part of its success.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Burton (with his multimedia company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrkidz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RRKidz<\/a>) has relaunched the &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; brand for a whole new generation of young readers&#8211;readers used to consuming media on computers, tablets and mobile devices. The &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; app is now <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/reading-rainbow\/id512350210?ls=1&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">available in the iTunes store<\/a>, and with it comes a world of learning and books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posttv\/video\/onbackground\/levar-burton-is-back-with-a-reading-rainbow-app\/2013\/09\/13\/5bf8c308-1c7f-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_video.html\" target=\"_blank\">In a recent interview,<\/a> Burton explained that after &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; was cancelled in 2009, he wanted to continue to inspire kids in their love of reading. &#8220;&#8216;Reading Rainbow&#8217; the television show was really about using the prevailing technology of the day to reach kids and turn them on to books and literature and the adventures of reading,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you want to reach kids today, you need to be on a mobile device.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/articles\/reading-rainbow-returns-as-app\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at BOOKish.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BOOKish &#8216;Reading Rainbow&#8217; Returns as App By Margaret Bristol and Natalie Zutter For 26 years, the beloved television show &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; aired on PBS, each episode offering new adventures and series book recommendations. The show was critically acclaimed (26 Emmys!) and host LeVar Burton&#8211;not to mention an addictive theme song&#8211;became an integral part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}