LeVar Burton
Series
Reading rainbow volume 36
Language
English
Description
Barbara Feldon reads the featured book, The Lifecycle of the honeybee, by Paula Z. Hogan. This book illustrates how bees make honey. Host LeVar Burton visits a beekeeper and examines a beehive close up. Viewers will learn how honey is extracted from combs and how important the queen bee is to a well-organized hive.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 20
Language
English
Description
Presents a reading of the book A chair for my mother, by Vera Williams. Host LeVar Burton carries through the story line about members of a family who team up and work together to rebuild their lives after a tragic fire, as he and his friends create a song and dance number called Teamwork.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 152
Language
English
Description
While visiting her father's family in Mali, a young girl loses her tooth, places it under a calabash, and receives a hen and a rooster from the African Tooth Fairy.
86) Beegu
Series
Reading rainbow volume 149
Language
English
Description
Explore the wonder and beauty of space. Beegu, a small space creature, finds no welcome on Earth until she meets some children on a playground.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 6
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present day animals who are related to dinosaurs ; Let's dig up fossils:...
Series
Reading rainbow volume no. 37
Language
English
Description
Featured book Keep the lights burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop is the true story of a young girl who kept her lighthouse light burning during a tremendous storm.
92) Amazing Grace
Series
Reading rainbow volume 91
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman leads into a discussion of stereotyping. LeVar interviews Whoppi Goldberg, where the topic of pursuing your own dreams is discussed.
94) Boxes for Katje
Series
Reading rainbow volume 153
Language
English
Description
After a young dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 38
Language
English
Description
Chickens aren't the only animals that lay eggs. The featured book explains that many animals lay eggs and they are called oviparous. Other segments include: Which came first - the chicken or the egg?: LeVar goes to the Moyer Hatchery to ask the roosters & hens that question ; I'm breaking out: features a visit to an incubator room at the hatchery and a baby chick hatching from it's shell ; Loggerhead turtles: a turtle biologist joins LeVar to watch...
Series
Language
English
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Description
Called to the neutral zone to help negotiate peace between the Romulans and the Federation, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted by the mysterious new Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a man who claims to be Picard's clone, and who plans to lead a Romulan attack on the Federation.
100) Owen
Series
Reading rainbow volume no. 119
Language
English
Description
Takes a humorous look at childhood. LeVar Burton explores positive ways that children can deal with changes in everyday life and growing up.