After a nearly 20-year absence, Reading Rainbow  will return with a new series on the YouTube channel KidZuko, hosted by Mychal Threets, Penguin Random House author and Mychal the Librarian on TikTok. Returning this October, the show will continue the premise of the original PBS series, which was hosted by LeVar Burton from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Mychal Threets releases his debut book, I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE (Random House Books for Young Readers), on February 3 2026.

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