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Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series by Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino Sr., and Pam Johnson.

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Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series by Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino Sr., and Pam Johnson. Hardback, 296 pages.

Creating Reading Rainbow explores the many intriguing and homespun stories that, when woven together, reveal how this groundbreaking and iconic television series came to be. What led to the series being called “Reading Rainbow”? How did the road to Reading Rainbow wind its way through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood? How did a public television station in Buffalo spearhead a movement in education and spark the passion for reading in millions of children? And, what does lasagna have to do with it?