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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow! Watch the classic children’s award-winning television series hosted by LeVar Burton as he promotes reading as a way for children to sample the world around them. Each episode encourages kids to read by making story time exciting and interesting, one book at a time!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar seems to have a lot of things going wrong for him as he spends a day in the park, causing lots of different emotions. LeVar introduces Koko the Gorilla, who learned to communicate through American Sign Language, and has recently been given a pet kitten to help her deal with the death of her last pet cat.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
To profile tall tales and legends such as Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Johnny Appleseed, LeVar is at a logger's camp for the bulk of the program. After the featured book, this program shows the work necessary to put out a forest fire. Buddy Ebsen reads the story of legendary lumberman Paul Bunyan, who supposedly carved the Grand Canyon and cut down hundreds of forests in his travels.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar visits Hawaii to get a closer look at active volcanoes. He studies lava and the way the earth changes after an eruption. Fernando Escandon reads Hill of Fire, a true story of how a volcano suddenly started to build up in a farmer's field in Mexico, and how the city then had to evacuate.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar visits the Boston Children's Museum to participate with other children to design a patchwork quilt with everyone having their own individual square. Isabel Sanford reads The Patchwork Quilt, a story about a young girl who learns how to make a special quilt from her grandmother, and how she and her mother spend the next year collaborating on the quilt after grandmother falls ill.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar goes to a totally fictitious spot to find "inventors" from all eras. True to form, these inventors come from the distant past, Reading Rainbow's near-present, and the future. Arnold Stang narrates Alistair's Time Machine, the story of a boy who invents a machine that takes him centuries back in time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1933]
Language
English
Description
A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.
This classic story about a duckling who lives on a boat on the Yangtze River has charmed readers since 1933. When the owner calls for the ducks to come home, Ping, the smallest duck, tries not to be the last up the gangplank--for the last duck counted gets spanked on the back. One evening Ping misses the call to come home and stays...
13) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
15) Barn dance!
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.
16) Could be worse!
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulberry Books
Pub. Date
1987, ©1977.
Language
English
Description
Everything is always the same at Grandpa's house, even the things he says--until one unusual morning.
18) Space case
Author
Series
Publisher
Pied Piper Books
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot.
19) Ocean adventures
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dive into exciting adventures with some of your favorite PBS KIDS characters! Learn how coral reefs are formed, get to know a giant prehistoric sea turtle, attend a show called The Dancing Duck Bonanza, and more in 10 tales featuring underwater fun!
20) 20 furry tales
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Contains twenty titles from Caillou, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Super Why and Wild Kratts released as a set.
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