Reading Rainbow (1984)

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

In Three By the Sea by Edward Marshall, Lolly, Spider, and Sam have eaten too much lunch and can't go swimming just yet. They decide to tell stories using the same characters, with each trying to outdo the others. In this episode of Reading Rainbow, imagination is the theme. Host LeVar Burton takes viewers to the Chicago City Limits, where a group shows what improvisation is all about. The kid critics review Come Away From the Water, Shirley by John Burningham, Regards to the Man in the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats, and Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel.

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educational-television, reading, book, reading-skills, field-trip, learning-skills, literature, sea