Brush

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.

Theme: Sometimes “things” are not always as they seem.

A little boy adopts a large brush to replace his banished dog. The brush totally surprises him when it comes to life and behaves like a dog.

LeVar finds out how “things” are not always what they seem when he visits artists who create 3-D animation. He also visits a designer of floats and giant balloons for the Macy’s parade – and takes a trip to the warehouse where the famous Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons and floats come to life.

Author: Pere Calders
Publisher: Kane/Miller

Field Trip Segments:

• Imagination and More – LeVar visits the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade warehouse. Animation – Animators demonstrate how 3-D animation is created
• Making Floats and Balloons – Manford Bass of May’s Studio talks about designing and creating floats and giant balloons for the Thanksgiving Parade

Review Books: Egg-Carton Zoo by Rudi Hass and Hans Blohm; What The Mailman Brought by Carolyn Craven; Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg