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''Reading Rainbow'' is an American children's television series that aired on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Go! from June 6, 1983, until November 10, 2006, that encouraged children to read. In 2012, an iPad and Kindle Fire educational interactive book reading and video field trip application was launched bearing the name of the program. The public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody Award and 26 Emmy Awards, 11 of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085075/awards?ref_=tt_ql_4 )〕 The series was created under the leadership of Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, at Lancit Media Productions in New York. The concept of a reading series for children originated with Twila Liggett, Ph.D., and Paul Schupbach (director), of the Great Plains National Instructional Television Library at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; and Tony Buttino, of WNED-TV Buffalo, New York. The original team included Lynne Brenner Ganek, Ellen Schecter, and host LeVar Burton. Each episode centered on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which was explored through a number of segments or stories. The show also recommended books for kids to look for when they went to the library. It is the third-longest running children's series in PBS history, after ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' and ''Sesame Street''. It was also one of the first PBS shows to be broadcast in stereo. After cancellation on November 10, 2006, reruns aired until August 28, 2009, when it was pulled from the schedule. On June 20, 2012, the Reading Rainbow App was released for the iPad and, within 36 hours, became the #1 most-downloaded educational app in the iTunes App Store. Built from the ground up by LeVar Burton and his company, RRKIDZ, the app allows children to read unlimited books, explore video field trips starring Burton, and earn rewards for reading. The week of June 11, 2013, ''Reading Rainbow'' celebrated its 30th anniversary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://readingrainbowblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/celebrations/ )〕 In May 2014 a Kickstarter campaign was launched to raise funds to make the app available on the web, Android, game consoles, smartphones, and other streaming devices along with creating a classroom version with the subscription fee waived for up to 13,000 disadvantaged classrooms. The effort met its initial fundraising goal of $1,000,000 in eleven hours.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/06/06/levar-burton-on-reading-rainbows-kickstarter-and-the-love-of-reading/ )〕 The campaign met its second goal of $5 million in the last 24 hours, triggering a matching $1 million from Seth MacFarlane; the final amount raised on Kickstarter is $5,408,916 from 105,857 backers.〔(Project Updates ). Kickstarter. Retrieved 2 July 2014.〕 ==Show details== ''Reading Rainbow'' was hosted by actor and executive producer LeVar Burton, who is also known for his roles in ''Roots'' and ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. It was produced by Lancit Media Entertainment from 1983 until 2000, and by On-Screen Entertainment from 2000 through 2006. Every episode featured a different book, often narrated by a celebrity. Celebrity readers included Philip Bosco (Barbara Bash's ''Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus''), Michael Ansara (Paul Goble's ''The Gift of the Sacred Dog'', Sheila MacGill Callahan's ''And Still the Turtle Watched''), Josie de Guzman (Leyla Torres's ''Saturday Sancocho''), Jason Robards (Francine Jacobs' ''Sam the Sea Cow''), Bill Cosby (Marc Brown's ''Arthur's Eyes''), Eartha Kitt (Megan McDonald's ''Is This a House for Hermit Crab?'') and Charles Kimbrough (David Wiesner's ''June 29, 1999''). Another segment featured Burton in diverse places talking to people about their work and other contributions, focusing on the theme of each episode. (In one episode, Burton took the show behind-the-scenes on the set of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.) The final segment of each show, called Book Reviews, began with Burton's introductory phrase, "But you don't have to take my word for it," and featured children giving capsule reviews of books they liked. Burton ended every show with, "I'll see you next time." The series' pilot, which aired as the show's eighth episode in 1983, featured the book ''Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport'' by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, and was narrated by Doug Parvin. It was created and produced in 1981. Burton hosted the program. Its theme song was written by Steve Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, and Janet Weir; Horelick also served as the series' music director and composer and received an EMMY nomination in 2007 for his work on the series. The original theme was sung by Tina Fabrique and featured one of the first uses of the Buchla synthesizer in a TV theme song. The original opening, which depicted a cartoon butterfly transforming the surroundings of young children reading books into cartoon fantasy lands, was used until 1999. Later episodes used a new opening, a live-action sequence in a space-themed environment, with the same theme song performed by R&B artist Chaka Khan. It was also used for reruns of older episodes until Labor Day of 2008, when PBS stopped airing reruns. The daughters of producer Larry Lancit, Shaune and Caitlin Lancit, were often featured in the series, notably as the children thanking the sponsors at the beginning and end of the show. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reading Rainbow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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