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Dr. Twila C. Liggett is the Creator of the outstanding PBS Children’s TV series, Reading Rainbow which premiered on PBS in 1983. She has been Executive Producer of the Emmy award winning series, Reading Rainbow, since its inception.
May 19, 2017 · Twila Liggett (Co-Creator, Executive Producer): I had been hired by ETV in Nebraska, which distributed programming to classrooms. One day my boss came to me and said, “You know, we’d like to ...
Dec 23, 2023 · There are many unlikely heroes behind the conception of "Reading Rainbow," most prominently Twila Liggett, a state reading coordinator from Nebraska. After completing her doctorate at the University of Nebraska, her talent for writing grants led her to apply for a job at her local television station, Nebraske Education Television (NETV).
- Larry Fried
May 7, 2024 · Butterfly in the Sky tells the story of Rainbow ’s entire arc, starting with the teaming up of WNED’s Director of Educational Services Tony Buttino and Nebraska ETV’s Twila Liggett, who’d previously been a book-loving elementary school teacher.
The concept of a reading series for children originated with Twila Liggett, PhD who in partnership with Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, at Lancit Media Productions in New York created the television series.
Millions of kids grew up watching Reading Rainbow, and in the new documentary Butterfly In the Sky, available now on Netflix, we can relive those childhood memories.
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Jun 9, 2022 · The key creators of the show were Twila Liggett, who started out as a teacher of eight- and nine-year-old kids, and Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, a married couple who had a production...
