My America - A Poetry Atlas of the United States: Reading Rainbow (TV Episode)

Plot

The Reading Rainbow series has won many awards for encouraging young children to read for pleasure. Using an effective magazine format, each program includes a featured book, visits to sites related to the show's topic, and interviews, dramatizations, and reviews of other books by youngsters. It has dealt with issues of social and cultural importance with sensitivity, and enlarges the outlook of its audience with shows devoted to scientific topics. This episode honors the geographic diversity of America with a reading of the poems in A Poetry Atlas of the United States by Lee Bennett Hopkins. ~ Alice Day, Rovi