LeVar Burton
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar visits Hawaii to get a closer look at active volcanoes. He studies lava and the way the earth changes after an eruption. Fernando Escandon reads Hill of Fire, a true story of how a volcano suddenly started to build up in a farmer's field in Mexico, and how the city then had to evacuate.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow! Watch the classic children’s award-winning television series hosted by LeVar Burton as he promotes reading as a way for children to sample the world around them. Each episode encourages kids to read by making story time exciting and interesting, one book at a time!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
To profile tall tales and legends such as Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Johnny Appleseed, LeVar is at a logger's camp for the bulk of the program. After the featured book, this program shows the work necessary to put out a forest fire. Buddy Ebsen reads the story of legendary lumberman Paul Bunyan, who supposedly carved the Grand Canyon and cut down hundreds of forests in his travels.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar goes to a totally fictitious spot to find "inventors" from all eras. True to form, these inventors come from the distant past, Reading Rainbow's near-present, and the future. Arnold Stang narrates Alistair's Time Machine, the story of a boy who invents a machine that takes him centuries back in time.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar seems to have a lot of things going wrong for him as he spends a day in the park, causing lots of different emotions. LeVar introduces Koko the Gorilla, who learned to communicate through American Sign Language, and has recently been given a pet kitten to help her deal with the death of her last pet cat.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
LeVar visits the Boston Children's Museum to participate with other children to design a patchwork quilt with everyone having their own individual square. Isabel Sanford reads The Patchwork Quilt, a story about a young girl who learns how to make a special quilt from her grandmother, and how she and her mother spend the next year collaborating on the quilt after grandmother falls ill.
11) Blizzard
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Pollak star in this charming holiday tale of young Katie and her magical friendship with BLIZZARD, one of Santa's newest reindeer. By using her special powers, Blizzard helps Katie realize her potential. And by banding together to overcome their obstacles, both Katie and Blizzard are able to share the greatest gift of all: friendship!
Series
Star trek next generation movie collection volume disc 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After an epic battle against the Borg (cybernetically-enhanced life forms) Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth's timeline and preventing Earth's first contact.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The big goodbye: When the holodeck malfunctions, Captain Picard, Data, Dr. Crusher and Whalen, the ship's historian, became trapped in San Francisco, 1941, where they are held hostage by murderous gangsters. Can the Captain and crew get back to the Enterprise in enough time to help the ship pass through the Jarada and the Korona IV quadrant? ; Sarek: The U.S.S. Enterprise is plagued by an outbreak of violence when it is visited by the renowned Vulcan...
Author
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller: "A superb, thoughtful biography" of the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (David McCullough).
Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their...
Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their...