Reading Rainbow, a program that launched in 1983 to encourage children to read, will be getting a reboot after nearly 20 years, with new host Mychal Threets. The show originally launched as a summer ...

Fans of the hit children’s educational TV show "Reading Rainbow" lined up Tuesday to meet its newest host.

For over 23 years, the television series Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton, gave generations of kids a true love of reading. And now, the iconic educational PBS series is getting rebooted. And ...

“Reading Rainbow” is back on the screen with a new host and a new way to watch nearly 20 years after initial production ended. A digital-only reboot of the beloved children’s series, which promoted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Mychal Threets, host of the rebooted version of "Reading Rainbow." (Santiago Mejia/S.F. Chronicle) As a young ...

After nearly two decades, the classic kids' show Reading Rainbow is back — with a new host and a new digital format, but with the same mission of encouraging children to "take a look, it's in a book." ...

Mychal Threets still remembers the voices his grandmother used to come up with when she read him children’s books. “She just went all in,” he said. Threets was home-schooled for most of his childhood, ...

Mychal Threets, author and host of the PBS Kids television show “Reading Rainbow,” visited the Elk Grove United Methodist Church on his book tour, hosted by A Seat at the Table Books, on Saturday.

One of Solano County’s favorite sons is set to be the latest avid reader to join the enduring legacy of “Reading Rainbow,” encouraging young minds everywhere to look in a book. Mychal Threets, for ...