Episode guide
Reading Rainbow: Season 11
10 episodes · premiered Oct 11, 1993
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- Episode 1: Amazing Grace Oct 11, 1993 · 30m LeVar visits a theater to discuss acting and how pretending to be someone else sometimes helps people express themselves in different ways. He also visits with his friend, Whoopi Goldberg…
- Episode 2: The Furry News Oct 12, 1993 · 30m As LeVar discusses his favorite parts of a newspaper and interviews other people for different viewpoints, other functions of a newspaper staff are explored. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley…
- Episode 3: Mrs. Katz and Tush Oct 13, 1993 · 30m LeVar pays a visit to a family friend, who is Jewish, to learn how to prepare special foods served during a Seder dinner, like Challah bread and potato latkes. Reizyl Bozyk and Rick…
- Episode 4: The Salamander Room Oct 14, 1993 · 30m LeVar explores the rain forest and animals in their habitats by visiting a park that recreates the rain forest environment artificially to make the animals comfortable. This episode also…
- Episode 5: Silent Lotus Oct 15, 1993 · 30m This episode takes a look-in at deaf culture. LeVar discusses forms of communication that doesn't involve words, like hand signals, mime, and gestures, like in charades. He also asks a…
- Episode 6: Follow the Drinking Gourd Oct 18, 1993 · 30m LeVar reflects on a time when Africans were brought to America as slaves. He talks about how African-Americans risked their lives for freedom, and discusses how the music from slavery…
- Episode 7: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Oct 19, 1993 · 30m One thing leads to another in this episode, with LeVar in a bowling alley, showing how certain actions lead to consequences. Included is a piece on an expert at domino displays and domino…
- Episode 8: Is This a House for Hermit Crab? Oct 20, 1993 · 30m LeVar sets out to build a bird house, prompting an examination of animal habitats. Eartha Kitt reads the story of a growing hermit crab, who is now too large for his current shell, and all…
- Episode 9: And Still the Turtle Watched Oct 21, 1993 · 30m LeVar discusses how people can help to preserve animals and plants in nature that are in danger of extinction. Stories profiled include scientists working to improve the bald eagle…
- Episode 10: June 29, 1999 Oct 22, 1993 · 30m What's fact and what's fiction? What's the truth and what's absurd? LeVar looks into unusual stories and tries to distinguish the actual news from fabrications. Charles Kimbrough reads a…