Getting Schooled: Cover to Cover, or, The Book Bird (1965-96)

 Cover to Cover, later rechristened, The Book Bird, began as a regional children's program in 1965 in Washington, DC. Series host John Robbins would read from selected books, much like on nationally televised children's shows such as Captain Kangaroo.

Locally, the series aired on WMHT, which, if memory serves, stuck with the Cover to Cover title, even as the title change had gone into effect, as part of its midday-early afternoon block of educational programming. I think it was long gone by the time the series ended in 1996.

Anyway, we'll take a look at a 1989 entry in which Robbins reads from one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books that led to Little House on The Prairie. In this case, it's Little House in The Big Woods.

Rating: A.