Taxi: A Book of City Words [Paperback]

Betsy Maestro (Author), Giulio Maestro (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1990 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

A bright yellow taxi leaves the garage and picks up many different people as it visits a skyscraper, a busy pier, and a fancy hotel.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-- Here's a day's tour of a large city by taxi recounted with a kind of textbook plainness. The yellow taxi is an unremarkable machine with an anonymous driver, but it provides the dramatic link that holds this list of city words together. The urban landscape is the real protagonist of the book, and its rhythms are shown very well. Full-color drawings illustrate the taxi's work day and its many stops--theater, department store, hospital, and so on. An entire page is devoted to each concept. These city words are helpfully printed in bold face type in the context of a sentence, but they are not defined. However, almost all of the words will be familiar to young readers, and one or two subtleties such as the difference between street and avenue are not terribly important. Young city kids and their country cousins will sense the movement and bustle of a metropolis on these pages. One can almost hear the noisy honking of horns. Beginning readers whose native language is not English will like it, also, for its two lines of text on each page and its directness and simplicity. --Anna Biagioni Hart, Sherwood Regional Library, Alexandria, Va.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"The instructive text here is well complemented by the panoramic illustrations, full of crisply delineated details." Kirkus Reviews

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Sandpiper (October 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039554811X
• ISBN-13: 978-0395548110
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,017,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Betsy Maestro is the author of the "American Story" series, illustrated by her husband, Giulio. She has also written several other non-fiction picture books, including the Let's-Read-And-Find-Out science books How Do Apples Grow? and Why Do Leaves Change Color?
The Maestros live in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, August 3, 2010

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This review is from: Taxi: A Book of City Words (Paperback)

Good book! Got it at the library and hoping to add it to our in-home library.