Huh, after reading this, you've crystallized my own feelings towards this show, which are almost identical. The Goosebumps series was the perfect segway to lov

Huh, after reading this, you've crystallized my own feelings towards this show, which are almost identical. The Goosebumps series was the perfect segway to loving reading for me: the idea that kids could get into, and then get themselves out of, dangerous situations that parents didn't respect or understand (though they too were often in danger they didn't realize), being classified in the "scary" genre, and the subtly charged boy/girl relationships (without being overtly sexual) made them much more interesting than typical 7-10 year old material. I tried out the current Reading Rainbow app a few months ago for my brother (who was around 8 at the time), and he had absolutely no interest in it. Maybe I'm just overestimating the age of Reading Rainbow's target demographic?