News Reading Rainbow Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 29, 2025 Screenshot: Kidzuko Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Kidzuko Reading Rainbow is the touchstone for many people’s childhoods, a beloved show hosted by LeVar Burton that imbued its young audience a love of reading and telling stories. The PBS show has sadly been off the air since 2009, when it ended its twenty-six-year run. We haven’t had much Reading Rainbow love since, though there was a recent documentary about it. Today, however, we found out the amazing news that the show is coming back! With social media treasure, and Ms. Rachel special guest, Mychal the Librarian hosting! The trailer was released on the official Reading Rainbow YouTube channel as well as the channel of its distributor, Kidzuko, Sony Pictures Television’s YouTube content hub. It shows Mychal hanging out with kids as well as famous people, some of whom read cool stories! Craft-making will also be part of the series, with kiddos creating things like sidewalk libraries. Some of the celebrities highlighted in the trailer include John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Gabrielle Union, and Adam DeVine. Everything about this makes me happy! Mychal is the perfect person to take over hosting the show. He’s a positive force on social media, a rare thing these days, and talks about how great it is to be a library kid (and a library grown-up). His motto, for example, is, “Having fun isn’t hard, when you have a library card!” Give him a follow if you aren’t following him already. You’re welcome. It’s not clear yet when new episodes will be available or if they will be available outside of YouTube (the description just says the show will be “available on digital”). While we wait for more wonderful Reading Rainbow-ness, check out the trailer for the new iteration of the show below. [end-mark] The post <i>Reading Rainbow</i> Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! appeared first on Reactor.