Twila Christensen Liggett

(1944- ) lived in Lincoln and Omaha. Educator, administrator, public television
executive, pioneered in 1983 the half-hour Reading Rainbow, a children’s literature series on the nation’s public television network designed to encourage more reading at home and at libraries, received national daytime Emmy Awards as executive producer for 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005 for a total of nine Emmys for outstanding children’s series; the series has won over 24 daytime Emmy Awards and has been nominated over 100 times in several categories; the series has also won other prestigious awards, including a Peabody Award for 1992 and the international Prix Jeunesse Award for children’s outstanding programming as well as over 160 other awards; now president of Twila Liggett Media, which consults with media projects and others involving early childhood and elementary curriculum, especially literacy. Consult Union College, Nebraska Cord Magazine, Summer 1983, pp. 7-8 and Winter 1999, pp. 8-10 and Lincoln Star, August 8, 1985, p. 23 and Lincoln Journal Star, June 11, 2001, p. D-4 and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3158 and Strathmore’s Who’s Who (2003-04).

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