Reading Rainbow Videos

This is the House that Jack Built

2009-07-04T00:02:00.000-07:00

Story: Swimmy

2009-07-03T11:32:00.001-07:00

Story: Shoo the Bee

2009-07-03T11:25:00.001-07:00

Chin Puppets

2009-07-03T11:24:00.001-07:00

Story: The Shopping List

2009-07-03T11:23:00.002-07:00

Story: The Little Engine that Could

2009-07-03T11:23:00.001-07:00

The Little Red Hen

2009-07-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

Quacky Quack Quack

2009-07-03T11:20:00.000-07:00

Story: Something from Nothing

2009-06-07T04:07:00.000-07:00

Trial Scene- The Merchant of Venice

2008-07-31T22:31:00.000-07:00

The Blue Umbrella

2008-07-23T04:57:00.002-07:00

Rounding up the Camels

2008-07-23T04:57:00.001-07:00

2008-07-23T04:51:00.001-07:00

The Clay Teapot

2008-07-23T04:49:00.000-07:00

The Sleeping Beauty

2007-11-15T21:18:00.000-08:00

The story Sleeping Beauty was narrated by Aatman Vakil- 5 years at the annual reading program of Reading Rainbow in April 2007.

The Fisherman and his Wife

2007-11-15T21:16:00.000-08:00

A popular folk tale told by Apurva Mishhra, Age 9 years and Aditya Patel (The Fish Prince) Age 9 years..

Tida Joshi- a puppet theatre in Hindi

2007-11-15T20:59:00.001-08:00

An excerpt from the puppet theatre that was performed by the Reading Rainbow members during the annual reading program on April 22, 2007. Age group of the performers is 8 - 9 years. The length of this story has been reduced for easy viewing. The puppets used here were made by the the young memebers of the centre under the guidance of Mr Abhijit Kothari.
The performers are: Keya Patel- narrator
Apurva Mishhra- Tida Joshi
Jeetmanyu Chandan- Patel
Anushka Sharma - Nindrani
Pankti Ashar - King

Mother Goose

2007-10-14T08:27:00.000-07:00

Reading Rainbow animated Mother Goose rhymes. At time of this event the age of most of these children was 5yrs. The girl enacting the role of Mother Goose was 8 years old. Now they all are between 9 - 13 years.

DALA TALWARI

2007-10-14T08:16:00.001-07:00

Puppet theatre performed by RR child Shamini Kothari and her father Abhijit Kothari as part of the reading program conducted by Reading Rainbow, India at Crossword Bookstore, Ahmedabad on June 18, 2004.

FAIR DIVISION

2007-10-14T08:15:00.004-07:00

A Mathematical Folktale from India.
Storyteller - Vedant Sharma.
Age at the time- 8yrs.

Mathamatical folktale from India

MOON POEMS

2007-10-14T08:15:00.003-07:00

These poems were written by Reading Rainbow children themselves.
Age group of children 7 - 8 years

THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT

2007-10-14T08:15:00.001-07:00

RR kids enacted this poem based on a fable from India

SMARTEST GIANT

2007-10-14T08:14:00.000-07:00

The Smartest Giant in Town is a popular book. Its script was modified to make it suitable to be performed by 7- 8 yr old RR kids, as a puppet show. It was performed as part of a reading program that Reading Rainbow conducted at the British Library, Ahmedabad on April 25, 2004.
Performers-
Soumya Rao- Narrator
Keval Hutheesing,as live Giant puppet
Priyanka Shah, Amrit Ayyar, Naman - puppeteers

Muriel Bloch at Reading Rainbow

2007-10-14T08:13:00.001-07:00

Popular French storyteller Muriel Bloch visited Reading Rainbow on September,2007 and told stories to children. All loved her style and appreciated her stories. Here is an excerpt from her story telling session.

Skit - All Free

2007-10-14T08:09:00.000-07:00

A short skit by RR kids performed on April 25,2004 at the British Library, Ahmedabad.
Actors- Aarit Ahuja, Rahul Hardikar,Vidisha Sanghvi, Naomi Dalal, Amrit Ayyar, Keval Hutheesing, Malay Solanki, Yash Asnani