Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as highTake a look, it's in a book - Reading Rainbow.
I can go anywhere!
Friends to know and ways to grow - Reading Rainbow.
I can be anything!
Take a look, it's in a book - Reading Rainbow.
Today, my mind has been occupied with some sad news. After 26 years on TV, one of my most beloved programs, Reading Rainbow, has been canceled. It has been deemed too expensive to continue with production, and no one (including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) wants to pay for it.
The recession has been hard on everyone, but it's especially hard to see it affect something that has touched so many lives. Reading Rainbow inspired children to read. It made reading fun and exciting; children aren't born with a love of reading. This love has to been planted and grown in a child. If no one is there to cultivate it, a child's love of learning and books will wither and die. Reading Rainbow served that purpose, and for almost 30 years, kids learned how to love reading. It's such a shame to see and institution like this go because of a bottom line.
