Once upon a time in a land of rabbit-eared TV sets that displayed four or five stations tops, there existed a half-hour program celebrating the joy of picture books that was called “Reading Rainbow.” ...

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, ...

We are big fans of the Reading Rainbow. Naturally, we couldn’t resist sharing the Funny or Die collaboration with Levar Burton. Burton shows us how books can make you a God that kills butterflies with ...

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 ...