Quarantine Book Readers
Enjoy these acts from all over the internet (and the world) as they read books for your quarantine listening pleasure.
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Tag: levar burton
LeVar Burton Joins ‘Miles From Tomorrowland’
We’re pleased to bring you a GeekDad exclusive peek at LeVar Burton’s new character in ‘Miles From Tomorrowland,’ along with a clip from the episode.
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GBBP 67: LeVar Burton
This week, we welcome a legend to the show. LeVar Burton has had a career that almost doesn’t seem possible. He’s been part of – in fact at the core of – a hat trick that continues to be unbelievably influential. Most actors would be thrilled to have had a fraction of his success.
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'Reading Rainbow' For The Next Generation
Reading Rainbow is moving ahead into the age of the internet with the robust online app Skybrary.
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LeVar Burton's New Kickstarter Brings the Magic of Reading Rainbow to Classrooms
LeVar Burton is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million dollars to expand the modern digital Reading Rainbow program to the web. You can help bring the beloved show back to a new audience of kids on the web.
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Reading Rainbow Kickstarter to Bring Reading to Every Kid, Everywhere
If there were ever a Kickstarter project that we can all get behind, it’s this new initiative by LeVar Burton to build his wonderful Reading Rainbow show into a learning platform that will be provided for FREE to anyone who wants to use it in an educational setting – especially school districts and homeschoolers.
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@LeVarBurton Reads The Night Before Christmas
Who better to read this classic tale than the man who encouraged us all to read via Reading Rainbow (oh, yeah, and Geordi LaForge!)? Maybe this can be a new holiday tradition!
Continue ReadingReading Rainbow Remixed – In Your Imagination
Symphony of Science’s John D. Boswell and PBS Digital Studios have once again teamed up to create another PBS icon remixed song. Featuring LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow Remixed – In Your Imagination is the fourth installment in this series.
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Welcome Back Reading Rainbow, We Missed You!
When I was in school, Reading Rainbow was one of my favorite TV shows. The signature theme song would get stuck in my head for most of the day after watching whichever episode my teacher put on for us. Levar Burton felt like a friend I had met in the library and I looked forward to the books he would use in each episode. The thing I really liked about Levar was how excited and eager he was to read each book. I feel like his enthusiasm to read rubbed of on me a little bit.
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