Alistair’s Time Machine

Product Description

The Reading Rainbow programs are designed to encourage children to read by transporting them to exciting, real-life settings. The series introduces kids to interesting new people and places, explores social and cultural issues, and offers a close-up look at the world around them. Its dynamic, fast-paced, colorful animation and hip music entertain and reinforce these experiences, and help children embrace positive reading habits, skills and attitudes.

LeVar takes viewers to see creative student inventions, and shows some historic film clips of amusing projects that never made it.

Field Trip Segments:

• What Would You Do? – Kids on the street tell what they would like to invent.
  Cool Inventions – Film clips and narration of some wild inventions that never made it
• Meet Thomas Edison – LeVar meets “Thomas Edison”, who invented the light bulb and then shows LeVar his other invention, the phonograph.

Feature Book:
Alistair’s Time Machine – 0 Author: Marilyn Sadler, Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Books: Find Waldo Now by Martin Handford; The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin by Aliki; What Does it Do? Inventions Then and Now by Daniel Jacobs.