Reading Rainbow. Tar Beach
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Based on the book of the same title.
Hosted by LeVar Burton ; read by Ruby Dee.
Host LeVar Burton introduces the book "Tar beach" by Faith Ringgold about a young girl's dream of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Also includes discussions about other activities on the rooftops of New York City, a suspension bridge in the city, and booktalks about "I'm flying" by Alan Wade, "To sleep" by James Sage, and "On Grandma's roof" by Erica Silverman.
DVD.
Contents: Tar beach.
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SERIES
Reading rainbow
81.
Reading rainbow (Television program)
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
PUBLISHED
Lincoln, NE : GPN Educational Media, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Mannucci, Mark.
Gluckson, Jill.
Burton, LeVar.
Dee, Ruby.
Ringgold, Faith.
Lancit Media Productions.
Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
SUBJECTS
Television programs for children.
Films for the hearing impaired.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Roofs -- New York.
Suspension bridges -- New York.
Children -- Books and reading.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.