TY - ADVS AU - Barracca,Debra AU - Barracca,Sal AU - Buehner,Mark AU - Burton,LeVar AU - Gardenia,Vincent AU - Mannucci,Mark ED - GPN Educational Media. ED - Great Plains National (Firm) ED - Great Plains National Instructional Television Library. ED - Lancit Media Productions. ED - WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.) TI - Reading rainbow T2 - Reading rainbow PY - 2007/// CY - Baltimore, MD PB - Great Plains National Instructional Television Library KW - Children KW - Books and reading KW - Juvenile films KW - City and town life KW - Dogs KW - Pets KW - Taxicabs KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Working dogs KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Children's television programs KW - lcgft KW - Educational television programs KW - Nonfiction television programs KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based the book of the same title by Debra Barracca and illustrations by Mark Buehner; Includes a full episode of Reading Rainbow, in which the book, The Adventures of taxi dog, is featured; Live action and iconographic; Originally produced as an episode of the television program Reading rainbow in 1991; Feature book: The adventure of taxi dog / authors, Debra and Sal Barracca; illustrator, Mark Buehner -- Meet Cosmo -- My best friend -- Taxi! -- Review books: Taxi: a book of city words / by Betsy and Giulio Maestro ; I want a dog / by Dayai Kaur Khalsa ; The first dog / by Jan Brett; Director of photography, Randy Drummond ; editor, James C. Wright ; music by Steve Horelick, Daniel Shklair; Hosted by LeVar Burton ; feature book read by Vincent Gardenia N2 - Presents the title work in which a stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he rides and shares adventures each day; and includes an introduction to Cosmo, canine companion to a woman in a wheelchair, a look at different pets, and people who hail taxis, and reviews of related books ER -