LeVar Burton Awarded National Medal of Excellence from National Endowment for the Humanities

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My ancestors are dancing and my heart is full… 💜🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/5FbSSsXkri
- LeVar Burton (@levarburton) October 23, 2024

Icon of my childhood and space star Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. has been awarded the National Humanities Medal for Literacy and Education Contributions by the National Endowment for Humanities.

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[likeiused2]

I read so much as a child I couldn't tell you my favorite. I had a few favorite series, though.
Taffy Sinclair/The Fabulous Five series created by Betsy Haynes
The Gymnasts series by Elizabeth Levy
Grimm's Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm
specific books:
The Red Woollen Blanket by Bob Graham
I was a blanket kid. If you had a blanket, pause and watch this.

[nutmegdealer]

mufaro's beautiful daughters, but negrontd might know that one.

[soavantgarde]

Ugh I’m so happy he continues to receive his flowers, I love Levar 😭❤️

Jenny and the Cat Club was a book I really loved in elementary but couldn’t remember for the longest time. It was about a black cat with a red scarf and her adventures, I remember it being one of those old books from the 50s-60s or something.

Also obsessed with any spooky middle grade stories, Wait Till Helen Comes is one of my favorites.

[ellie_andrews]

I recently read Wait Till Helen Comes for the first time (as a 38 yr old woman) and dang! That shit was so good!

[maskofsmiles]

My favorite book was "The Secret Garden", to where I owned multiple copies of it. But the books that I probably checked out of the library the most were "The Doll Hospital" and "The Silent Storm". I own both now as an adult, but haven't re-read them partly in fear of them not holding up to my memory of them. I recently re-read "The Indian in the Cupboard" and it did not hold up so well.

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I loved Mandy which I always thought was The Secret Garden but it is not!

I used to love those books. I wanted my stuff to have wonderful adventures...except I never had it happen myself sadly

[yami_no_hoshi]

I really liked this Canadian series about a girl detective named Stevie Diamond: https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/stevie-diamond-mystery/46591/?srsltid=AfmBOoq6vNE_7juWNNgTh_3ZcHhGDFnSYVD3hbBLSMGmD6kK3WJzw3Qh

they were fun!

[felixfin]

Aaaw this brings back so much nostalgia for me, I absolutely loved these books when I was younger!

[yami_no_hoshi]

aww yay glad someone else remembers them! I remember being blown away learning that people in Winnipeg have to plug their cars in because it's so cold there lmao. I learned that from these books. they were fun, almost makes me want to look for them in the library