Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton: Will Digital Books Replace Print?

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Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton: Will Digital Books Replace Print?

By Mary Jo Madda (Columnist) and Blake Montgomery     Mar 21, 2016

Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton: Will Digital Books Replace Print?

When the popular children’s television show "Reading Rainbow" graced TV sets across America in the 90s, host LeVar Burton took students through a world of literature and storytelling. Today, he’s back at with the Reading Rainbow Skybrary School website.

Back in 2014, LeVar announced that he would be returning to the reading game. Since then, he claims that readers have enjoyed over 20 million books and videos from the library. We spoke with LeVar to see what’s next for the app, what he’s reading and what he’s learned about adults from reading so much children’s literature.

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Correction: An earlier version of this article identified Skybrary School as an app. It is a website.

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