My husband and I both credit our love of reading to many things: parents who read nightly to us, great teachers and schools and just a little bit innate nature of both being Gemini-reading-and-talking-about-everything people. As children of the 80s, we both literally grew up with Reading Rainbow. It was very influential in how I imagined how books could come to life. My husband loves the episode where they go to the diner to explore the themes of the "The Robbery of the Diamond Dog Diner." One of my favorites involved going to a hat shop.
This article talks about some of the pressures, including the Bush administration's (lack of?) priorities which contributed to the ending of the show. The conflict seems to be between the goal of teaching kids to read --which Reading Rainbow didn't do. As quoted, it teaches kids "why to read." From our now adult perspective, the show built schema and background knowledge which helped young readers explore the possibilities of reading.
Check out the below referenced article, if only for the awesome title song clip!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow/
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