Reading Rainbow Kickstarter

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Levar Burton has a Kickstarter going for Reading Rainbow.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-re...

It started May 28, 2014.

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I grew up watching Reading Rainbow

This is fantastic news. I was 7 when Reading Rainbow started in 1983. I used to love that show and i'm sure that is at least part of the reason that I still love books and reading 3 decades later. I'm so glad to see that a new generation of kids will be taught to love reading.

The response has been tremendous...

erica jane's picture

They hit one million dollars on the first day the Kickstarter has been running, and as of this post, are at just over two million dollars with over a month left.

Here's a link to LeVar Burton's response to reaching one million dollars yesterday.

So many things have been going wrong for me lately, and this just hit me like a hammer. It made me cry. It made me want to believe that not everything turns into mud and shit.

~And so it goes...