My Little Yellow Taxi

by Stephen T. Johnson

Caldecott Honor artist Stephen T. Johnson puts kids in the driver's seat with this irresistible companion to the bestselling My Little Red Toolbox . With sixteen interactive features at their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152164650
• ISBN13: 9780152164652
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 14 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 10.9" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 3 years and under

Customer Reviews

Excellent book with lots of activities!

My son loves this book! We got it a year ago after he turned three. It has survived the year and is still a favorite. It is very well made and extremely entertaining!

Great Book

I ordered this book since I am going to a Children's Book workshop this Summer and the author is speaking. Very cleaver book with lots of moving parts and good language use. Great fun to share with a grandson.

we love the taxi book

My 4 year old loves, loves this book. I also got it for a playmate who is 4 years old, and reported back he also loves this book. It is SUCH fun it is hard for the children to be gentle with it, and it is only cardboard. My kudos for making "just a book" so strong, but even so, it can handle only so much abuse. I do have to put it away when younger children come over, because it has suffered mishaps and I've had to repair it. I would definately wait until your child can "care" properly for a book before getting this one.

Perfect for little car fans!

My boys loved the little red toolbox--My Little Yellow Taxi did not disappoint! The pieces are pretty stiff initially, but are so much fun for them to play pretend with. Like the toolbox, the book is cardboard, so it does wear. But that does not deter them from filling the taxi up with gas, or using the key to start the engine. A great book for car trips!

I'm playing here! I'm playing here!

To succeed in the world of children's book publishing, an author/artist needs to exhibit a certain level of flexibility. If your first book for kids is a rousing success you may certainly coast on that for a while, but eventually you'll want to expand your horizons. The best artists out there, be they Paul O. Zelinsky, Maurice Sendak, or Faith Ringgold, know how to switch gears and try entirely new things. I mention all this because I cannot wrap my head around the books of Stephen T. Johnson. If flexibility is a talent then this man's a veritable contortionist. Look at his past for a moment. He puts out "Alphabet City" and "City By Numbers" which were realistic and industrial and clever. Then at the same time there's "My Little Blue Robot" and "My Little Red Toolbox", which made the idea of an interactive book more tangible than ever before. Turn around again and he's putting out "Hoops", "Love As Strong As Ginger" and "The Tie Man's Miracle", with yet another different look. Finally we come to 2006. On the one hand Mr. Johnson paired with Diane Siebert to put out the magnificently reviewed, "Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art". Then you turn around again and in the same year is "My Little Yellow Taxi". "Taxi", truth be told, will encounter far more fans than "Tour America" if only be deint of its amusing premise. As long as you are able to break-in the book before your kid gets ahold of it AND you find a way to keep all the pieces together, this may well be the best loved title your entling ever receives. The book puts the child reader in the driver's seat of a taxi cab. Literally. Kids are given the chance to operate their very own car. They can check their tire pressure with a removable gauge. They can look in the glove compartment, adjust the shiny shiny mirror, and even place the key in the ignition. This being a taxi and all, kids can also set the fare box so that the taxi is available for rides. Then, as you reach the back of the book, there is a little removable taxi just waiting to be driven over, under, around, and about for the car-loving child's pleasure. Part book, part interactive toy, what "My Little Taxi" achieves is the ability to make books fun for book-phobic little ones. The nice thing about the title is that aside from the fare box, kids that read this book needn't be familiar with what a taxi cab is. Just as long as they've seen a car, they'll be happy. And trust me, cars are a continual fascination for some little ones. Often I'll find myself directing children under the age of three to the car section of the library so that they can stare in wonder at the pictures of shiny automobiles. Put this book in their hands and their interest immediately skyrockets. Of course, in watching kids play with this book I've determined that left to their own devices, these future drivers of America haven't the clearest of ideas on what to do with each page. For example, one kid removed the tire g