Reading Rainbow is returning to TV with a new host: Mychal Threets, also known as Mychal the Librarian, a Bay Area librarian immensely popular on TikTok and Instagram. News of the show’s return with Threets was announced on Monday.

“Reading Rainbow is returning will all-new episodes,” Threets said in a trailer video for the revamped children’s series. “That means new friends, new projects and, of course, new books!”

The children’s show promoting reading and literacy originally aired from 1983–2006, with host LeVar Burton and a contagious theme song .

Threets is a natural fit to host the relaunched Reading Rainbow . Born in Fairfield, he returned home after graduating from San Jose State University and began working at the Fairfield branch of the Solano County Library, where he wo

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