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Reading rainbow. Adventures of taxi dog [videorecording] / a production of GPN & WNED-TV ; produced by Lancit Media Productions ; produced by Jill Gluckson ; directed by Mark Mannucci.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 126.0072D | GPN Educational MediaLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Reading rainbow ; 072.Publication details: Baltimore, MD : Great Plains National Instructional Television Library, c2007.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Adventures of taxi dog
Uniform titles:
  • Reading rainbow (Television program)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Production credits:
  • 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.Summary: 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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's DVD Children's DVD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's DVD Reading Checked out 05/02/2024 33111007654821
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he rides and shares adventures each day.

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.

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.

DVD, standard format.

English subtitles and closed captioned.

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