Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series Fiction_Gift_Guide until she starts to hear

until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's an Asian play with Asian characters

laughter and love

and on the bedside table of all politicians

Patrick McGilligan’s definitive account separates fact from fiction to reveal:

THE TIMES (London)

Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series Fiction_Gift_Guide until she starts to hearReading Rainbow is one of the most successful PBS childrens series in television history, earning numerous national and international awards including 26 Emmys and a Peabody Award. But perhaps more important than anything else, Reading Rainbow helped generations of children cultivate a love for books. Reading Rainbow is very much a story of humble beginnings and enormous perseverance. Over five summers, Tony Buttino Sr. and his colleagues at WNED TV,