Reading and literacy television series

Reading Rainbow

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of s...

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The Electric Company

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the c...

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Animaniacs

Series Age rating: 3 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners...

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WordGirl

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 9 –12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The show began as a series of...

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WordWorld

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.8

WordWorld is an Emmy Award-winning children's television series partially funded by the United States Department of Education as part of the Ready to Learn literacy initiative targeted to 3- to 7-year...

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series that premiered March 26, 1995, on HBO. Narrated by Robert Guillaume, the series aired 39 episodes fr...

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Clifford the Big Red Dog

Series Age rating: 2 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The adventures of a larger-than-life red dog on Bridwell Island.

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Super Why!

Series Age rating: 1 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue...

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Ghostwriter

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 5.8

When a ghost haunts a neighborhood bookstore and starts releasing fictional characters into the real world, four kids must team up to solve an exciting mystery surrounding the ghost’s unfinished busin...

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