Reading Rainbow has done for books what Scouting has done for the great outdoors.
Each offers young people a better childhood by connecting them to those essential elements of growing up.
The two forces united earlier this month when Boys’ Life Senior Writer Aaron Derr penned a powerful guest post on the Reading Rainbow blog.
Derr shows Reading Rainbow’s blog readers how the Scouting program and the great outdoors bring out the best in all Scouts — even those you initially fear might not make it.
It’s nice timing for a pro-Scouting post on Reading Rainbow’s blog, considering the brand’s Kickstarter-backed resurgence. Reading Rainbow just earned $5.4 million on Kickstarter, meaning it will bring books to more than 10,000 classrooms and beef up its mobile offerings.
The post, mainly targeted at non-Scouting families, has anecdotes I know you’ll appreciate.
Check out Derr’s Reading Rainbow guest post here, and if you like his writing as much as I do, pick up the latest Boys’ Life magazine for even more of his inspiring Scouting stories.
Great post. Even though it wasn’t about reading, it’s super to see the personal connection between Reading Rainbow and Scouting. I love seeing anything about reading and Scouting, as it brings to mind the heroic story of little Jimmy West, the crippled orphan boy who loved learning, started a library in the orphanage, and paid the younger children a penny (from his own pocket) for each book they read. As Chief Scout Executive, he emphasized reading as a Scout activity through Boys’ Life (even keeping it alive during the Great Depression) and the official BSA library of fiction books.