The fairy tale of the miller's daughter who gets help spinning straw into gold. LaVar Burton visits the Renaissance festival where daily life is re-enacted and traveling performers such as jesters and minstrels take part in the fanfare. Enjoy madrigals and instruments of the period.
30 minute DVD. Purchase includes public performance rights.
DVD is part of the Reading Rainbow Emmy Award-winning series, which inspires a love of reading in PreK-3, and offers an excellent introduction to many varieties of music through the medium of the best children's literature.
In a fast-paced live video magazine format, viewers travel with host LeVar Burton to meet interesting people in exciting places. Celebrities narrate many of the stories, read and shown in their entirety, and children give mini-reviews of related books.