The Ones To Grow On

Spring 2004 Contents

About Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow, the award-winning PBS children's series hosted by LeVar Burton, takes viewers on unforgettable learning adventures to nurture a lifelong love of reading. PBS 45 & 49 air Reading Rainbow weekdays at 11 am.

Reading Rainbow has garnered more than 150 awards in 20 seasons, including 16 Emmys (six for Outstanding Children's Series) and a prestigious Peabody.

Actor, director and producer LeVar Burton has been host of Reading Rainbow since its launch in 1984. Among his many awards for service to children, Burton received the 2004 Fred Rogers Award for Excellence in Children's Educational Media in February. He is just as well known to audiences as the character Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and for his role as Kunta Kinte in the groundbreaking miniseries, Roots.