LeVar Burtons Kickstarter campaign to bring Reading Rainbow to more platforms and to thousands of classrooms for free closed today with funding of over $5.4 million — not including the additional $1 million that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane plans to donate. Having hit its ambitious $5 million stretch goal, Burtons company will now be bringing Reading Rainbow to […]
Reading Rainbow, the popular and critically acclaimed childrens educational series from the 1980s, has become the most popular Kickstarter project yet in terms of number of backers — 91,588 individual contributors as of today at 11 AM EST. The campaign, which seeks to bring Reading Rainbow back as a website and app for smartphones and TVs, […]
Even after Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year-long run in 2009, series host LeVar Burton wasnt ready to drop its mission of promoting reading habits and literacy. He brought the series back as an iPad app two years ago, to much acclaim, but Burton still hasnt been satisfied with what its been able to accomplish. 97 percent […]
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