SAVE READING RAINBOW!!! Host LeVar Burton appeals to philanthropists to help fund the show. When you've won 7 Emmy awards for best children's show, you know you're doing something right. Damn. I remember the first RR show I watched as a kid... It was the one with the book about the ox-cart man, and LeVar went to Old Sturbridge Village. I can't believe PBS is considering cancelling the show. There will never be anything else like it.