Reading Rainbow

"Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!"

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	Reading Rainbow
First Air Date	June 6, 1983
Last Air Date	November 10, 2006
Seasons	21
Episodes	155
Episode Runtime	30min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United States of America
Production Companies	Lancit Media Productions GBH
Networks	PBS

S21E05

Show Way

As LeVar helps his wife and daughter construct his family tree, Diahann Carroll narrates Show Way, in which the author chronicles her family back to her Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother, who was a slave in the South. Through traditions passed down to each generation, her family learned to sew "Show Way" quilts that were secretly maps designed to help slaves escape to the north to freedom, and how her relatives taught her to keep up with the love of quilting to retain family history.

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