Reading rainbow

Gilda Radner narrates this program's feature book, The Tortoise and the Hare, retold and illustraed by Janet Stevens. LaVar faces a big challenge when he gets ready to compete against some of Hawaii's top bicyclists in the First Annual Rainbow Mini-Classic Bicycle Race.

Presents a book about baby animals spending their summer growing, playing, and learning from their parents. Also visit the fall harvest at a cranberry farm in Massachusetts; see the variations in winter weather from Florida to Alaska; and witness the spring miracle of newborn animals in the wild.

Presents books featuring a naturalist's observations of wildlife. Also meet the author of these books, see a mink, explore a beaver dam, and walk on a porcupine trail.

Story of Beegu, a small space creature who finds no welcome on Earth until she meets some children on a play ground. Also discusses space exploration.

Recounts the life of Paul Bunyan whose unusual size and strength brought him many adventures. Also visits a logging competition, explores a forest firefighter training program and gets fire prevention tips from Smokey the Bear.

Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather ingredients for making an apple pie. Also, see a chef at work and learn how chemistry is used at an ice cream factory. Includes related book reviews.

Presents the title work in which the kids in room 207 take advantage of their teacher's absence and decide to "really act up," and includes visits with a make-up artist and a magician, riddles, mask and costume activities, and reviews of related books.

Presents the title work in which Fox, trying to earn the money for a new bicycle, tries to find a job to match his skills, and includes a look at people at work, an introduction to a fifteen-year-old businessman, and reviews of related books.

Presents the title work in which Wilbur, an ordinary rabbit in real life, goes to work each morning and is transformed into the television superhero star of the "Bionic Bunny Show," and includes a visit to the set of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," a look at how the show's special effects are created, and reviews of related books.

Presents the title work in which Grandma tells about her mama's journey to America by boat years ago, and includes footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, a tour of the restored Statue of Liberty, and reviews of related books.