Reading Rainbow (1989)
Genres - Education |
Sub-Genres - Children's Educational, Children's Entertainment, Literary Studies |
Run Time - 30 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Alice Day
The idea of a real buried treasure has Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton very excited when he discovers a special map in this episode about treasures. The featured book of the program is Sunken Treasures, written by Gail Gibbons and read by Robert Morse. Burton discusses methods used to locate the sunken Titanic with its finder, Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of Massachusetts. The program also looks at another sunken ship that originated in Spain over 300 years ago.
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educational-television, reading, book, reading-skills, field-trip, learning-skills, literature, treasure
