Reading Rainbow is an educational TV show that promotes literacy and a love for reading among children. Each episode features a different book and explores its themes and lessons. Host LeVar Burton takes young viewers on imaginative journeys through storytelling, introducing them to diverse cultures, interesting places, and fascinating people.
Between the Lions is an educational TV show that follows a family of lions who run a library. They teach children about reading and literacy through various adventures and stories.
Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap-o'-Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 1996, clocking up around 3,500 episodes in its 30-year run. The final story, The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, was read by Alan Bennett and broadcast on 24 March 1996. The show returned on 27 November 2006 for two one-off stories. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair. From time to time the scene being read would be illustrated by a specially commissioned still drawing, often by Quentin Blake. Usually a single book would occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes, from Monday to Friday.
An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.
A portrait of Highlights Magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th Anniversary issue, from the first editorial meeting to its arrival in homes, and introducing the quirky people who passionately produce the monthly publication for "the world's most important people,"...children. Along the way, a rich and tragic history is revealed, the state of childhood, technology, and education is explored, and the future of print media is questioned.
A documentary exploring the life and career of Quentin Blake, a celebrated illustrator known for his work in children's literature and artwork.
It tells the story of an author who is trying to find his way of contributing and showcases what his contemporaries think about him and his work. As it follows Claes Lindhardt, in the year that he wrote 'Marco the Measuring Caterpillar'.
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