Reading Rainbow? There’s An App For That.

The popular PBS children’s series, which was on the air for more than 20 years, is now an app, exclusively for the iPad, that gives children hundreds of options of curated books and new videos from publishers including Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Charlesbridge Publishing, Kane Press and Peachtree Publishers. The app is meant to promote reading among children. Host, and producer, LeVar Burton, will take children on “field trips” that relate the stories to the child’s own world, utilizing videos and segments from the original show. The app is geared towards children ages 3 to 9. “Reading will never go out of style, but the tools used for learning are changing,” Burton says. “I am excited to bring ‘Reading Rainbow’ back so that parents who watched the show can now share that same feel-good experience with their own children, but on a platform that resonates with today’s digital kids.”