Reading Rainbow (1983)

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.

Reading Rainbow

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Season 9

Season 9

Season 10

Season 10

Season 11

Season 11

Season 12

Season 12

Season 13

Season 13

Season 14

Season 14

Season 15

Season 15

Season 16

Season 16

Season 17

Season 17

Season 18

Season 18

Season 19

Season 19

Season 20

Season 20

Season 21

Season 21

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Tight times

  • 1x2

    Miss nelson is back

  • 1x3

    Bea and mr. jones

  • 1x4

    Bringing the rain to kapiti plain

  • 1x5

    Louis the fish

  • 1x6

    Digging up dinosaurs

  • 1x7

    Liang and the magic paintbrush

  • 1x8

    Gila monsters meet you at the airport

  • 1x9

    Three days on a river in a red canoe

  • 1x10

    The gift of the sacred dog

  • 1x11

    Gregory, the terrible eater

  • 1x12

    Three by the sea

  • 1x13

    Arthur's eyes

  • 1x14

    The day jimmy's boa ate the wash

  • 1x15

    Ty's one man band

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Hot-air henry

  • 2x2

    Simon's book

  • 2x3

    Ox-cart man

  • 2x4

    Mystery on the docks

  • 2x5

    A chair for my mother

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Paul bunyan

  • 3x2

    The patchwork quilt

  • 3x3

    Hill of fire

  • 3x4

    The tortoise and the hare

  • 3x5

    Perfect the pig

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Animal cafe

  • 4x2

    Alistair in outer space

  • 4x3

    Feelings

  • 4x4

    Watch the stars come out

  • 4x5

    Mama don't allow

  • 4x6

    Space case

  • 4x7

    The milk makers

  • 4x8

    Imogene's antlers

  • 4x9

    Germs make me sick!

  • 4x10

    Abiyoyo

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    The life cycle of the honey bee

  • 5x2

    Keep the lights burning, abbie

  • 5x3

    Chickens aren't the only ones

  • 5x4

    The paper crane

  • 5x5

    The runaway duck

  • 5x6

    A three hat day

  • 5x7

    Rumplestiltskin

  • 5x8

    Best friends

  • 5x9

    Meanwhile back at the ranch

  • 5x10

    My little island

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    The bionic bunny show

  • 6x2

    Bugs

  • 6x3

    The robbery at the diamond dog diner

  • 6x4

    Brush

  • 6x5

    The purple coat

  • 6x6

    Barn dance!

  • 6x7

    Duncan and dolores

  • 6x8

    Knots on a counting rope

  • 6x9

    Mummies made in egypt

  • 6x10

    Mufaro's beautiful daughters

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Humphrey the lost whale: a true story

  • 7x2

    Stay away from the junkyard!

  • 7x3

    Little nino's pizzeria

  • 7x4

    Ludlow laughs

  • 7x5

    Dinosaur bob and his adventures with the family lazardo

  • 7x6

    Dive to the coral reefs

  • 7x7

    Desert giant: the world of the saguaro cactus

  • 7x8

    Tooth-gnasher superflash

  • 7x9

    Bored-nothing to do!

  • 7x10

    Sports pages

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    The magic school bus inside the earth

  • 8x2

    Jack, the seal and the sea

  • 8x3

    The bicycle man

  • 8x4

    Florence and eric take the cake

  • 8x5

    Sunken treasure

Episodes season 9

  • 9x1

    Alistair's time machine

  • 9x2

    The adventures of taxi dog

  • 9x3

    The legend of the indian paintbrush

  • 9x4

    Galimoto

  • 9x5

    Fox on the job

  • 9x6

    Opt: an illusionary tale

  • 9x7

    Raccoons and ripe corn

  • 9x8

    The lady with the ship on her head

  • 9x9

    Kate shelley and the midnight express

  • 9x10

    Snowy day: stories and poems

Episodes season 10

  • 10x1

    Tar beach

  • 10x2

    The wall

  • 10x3

    Sam the sea cow

  • 10x4

    Rechenka's eggs

  • 10x5

    Sophie and lou

  • 10x6

    Come a tide

  • 10x7

    The piggy in the puddle

  • 10x8

    Seahorse surprises

  • 10x9

    Through moon and stars and night skies

  • 10x10

    Berlioz the bear

Episodes season 11

  • 11x1

    Amazing grace

  • 11x2

    The furry news

  • 11x3

    Mrs. katz and tush

  • 11x4

    The salamander room

  • 11x5

    Silent lotus

  • 11x6

    Follow the drinking gourd

  • 11x7

    If you give a mouse a cookie

  • 11x8

    Is this a house for hermit crab?

  • 11x9

    And still the turtle watched

  • 11x10

    June 29, 1999

Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    Nosey mrs. rat

  • 12x2

    Borreguita and the coyote

  • 12x3

    Summer

  • 12x4

    Once there was a tree

  • 12x5

    Appelemando's dreams

  • 12x6

    The lotus seed

  • 12x7

    Hail to mail

  • 12x8

    Stellaluna

  • 12x9

    My shadow

  • 12x10

    Ruth law thrills a nation

Episodes season 13

  • 13x1

    The wonderful towers of watts

  • 13x2

    Martha speaks

  • 13x3

    Alejandro's gift

  • 13x4

    The sign painter's dream

  • 13x5

    Archibald frisby

Episodes season 14

  • 14x1

    Fly away home

  • 14x2

    Uncle jed's barber shop

  • 14x3

    How to make an apple pie and see the world

  • 14x4

    Owen

  • 14x5

    How much is a million?

Episodes season 15

  • 15x1

    Always my dad

  • 15x2

    Bread is for eating

  • 15x3

    Hotel animal

  • 15x4

    Someplace else

  • 15x5

    Zin! zin! zin! a violin

Episodes season 16

  • 16x1

    On the day you were born

  • 16x2

    Hip cat

  • 16x3

    Regina's big mistake

  • 16x4

    Giving thanks: a native american good morning message

  • 16x5

    The carousel

Episodes season 17

  • 17x1

    Math curse

  • 17x2

    My life with the wave

  • 17x3

    Saturday sancocho

  • 17x4

    When aunt lena did the rhumba

  • 17x5

    Work song

Episodes season 18

  • 18x1

    The shaman's apprentice: a tale of the amazon rainforest

  • 18x2

    Pet stories you don't have to walk

  • 18x3

    Lemonade for sale

  • 18x4

    The secret shortcut

  • 18x5

    My america: a poetry atlas of the united states

  • 18x6

    Badger's parting gifts

Episodes season 19

  • 19x1

    The tin forest

  • 19x2

    Max

  • 19x3

    Enemy pie

  • 19x4

    Our big home: an earth poem

Episodes season 20

  • 20x1

    Visiting day

  • 20x2

    Unique monique

  • 20x3

    Mr. george baker

  • 20x4

    Beegu

  • 20x5

    Two old potatoes and me

Episodes season 21

  • 21x1

    The biggest test in the universe

  • 21x2

    I lost my tooth in africa

  • 21x3

    Boxes for katje

  • 21x4

    Game day

  • 21x5

    Show way

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