Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading rainbow! For over 30 years, this beloved children's television series has been bringing stories to life. Hosted by acclaimed actor LeVar Burton, journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books.

"The popcorn popper:" Lionel and Leona persuade Click the Mouse to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book. "Hug, hug, hug!:" Leona helps a sculptor who falls in love with his statue. "Piggyback, piggyback:" Leona decides to ride piggyback on her dad's back forever and ever.

A storybook tornado blows into the library and makes a terrible mess. Key word: west. Word family: -est. Target vowel: short e. Target consonant: w. Genre: folk tale. Subject/Themes: the environment and writing stories and poems.

A reading of the book, "Rumpelstiltskin" by author Paul O. Zelinsky. Host LeVar Burton visits a Renaissance festival in Agoura Hills, California. Viewers experience what it was like to live in the days of lords, kings and queens, and knights in shining armor. LeVar explores the festival where daily performers such as minstrels and jesters all take part in the fanfare.

Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present day animals who are related to dinosaurs ; Let's dig up fossils:...

Fly away home is a story of a homeless boy and his father who live in an airport. Other segments include: Views from the street: which features homeless children ; Losing your home: children left homeless from a fire express their feeling about homelessness ; Community help: describes the work of an organization called Common Sense, whose members collect pennies and use them to buy items for homeless shelters. Also features a teenager describing why...

Lionel lion refuses to read "Fuzzy wuzzy" to his little sister Leona because it's a "baby" book, but his parents (who work in the library) become interested in Fuzzy and soon the patrons join in--forming a chanting conga line through the stacks. The young shepherd from "Boy who cried wolf" jumps out of the book, and as a thin paper cutout, follows Lionel as the young lion gets a book on "How to watch sheep." "Chap with caps" is a retelling of the...

A reading of the book, "Mufaro's beautiful daughters" by author John Steptoe. Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. Includes other segments on African drums and the dance troupe, Forces of Nature.

Explains how waves, sand, and pebbles form at the seashore and describes the animals, plants, and shells that can be found on the beach when the tide goes out. Other segments: Suprises on the shore: LeVar shows how the shoreline is constantly changed by the wind, sun, and sea. He explores an island beach and finds seaweed, coral, waves, and animals that live inside shells ; Surprises in the sea: red mangrove trees and the animals that live in them...

Julia Child reads the featured book "Florence and Eric take the cake" by Jocelyn Wild. LeVar Burton takes a trip behind the scenes of the Movie Land Wax Museum in Buena Park, California, and gets a close-up look at how a wax figure is made - and not just any wax figure at that! Viewers also get a glimpse of how some very talented bakers can make a cake look just about anything.