The long-running and genuinely great children’s show about books, whatever those are, Reading Rainbow, is airing its final episode today. Summer bummer! Here is a collection of the top 11 cover versions of the theme song. R.I.P.

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Comments (12)
  1. this is sad!!!! i loved this show when i was a kid!!! i used to watch it all the time!! even tho i dont really like reading lol!!!!!

  2. God, this is just the most depressing summer ever.

  3. Wow, when I read the title of this post I thought LeVar Burton had died and I almost started crying.

  4. Oh no :( My childhood really is over.
    RIP, Reading Rainbow!

  5. I am surprised how sad I am considering that I thought Reading rainbow had been cancelled years ago.

  6. Annie  |   Posted on Aug 28th, 2009

    hah. #9: the emo theater geek version.

  7. Shit, I had no idea Reading Rainbow was even still on the air! Just like the song says, you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. I’ll miss you, LeVar, but…don’t take MY word for it!

  8. tizzdogg  |   Posted on Aug 31st, 2009

    i just downloaded the entire series to my kindle

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