This was one of my favorite books as a child. I recently read it to my 7 year old, who doesn't like reading. She laughed at the man and realised the importance of reading. What a great book! Too bad it is no longer available.

This is a book that is requested over and over by my children, and I always enjoy reading it to them!

This book stresses the importance of reading in a fun and happy way. My children still laugh at the mistakes the little old man makes at the grocery store because he could not read.

The "learn to read" moral of the story makes this an excellent book to read out loud for kindergarten and 1st grade classes. It is a shame this book is only available as used editions.

This book shows how important it is to be able to read. It was one of my favorite books as a child!

My eighteen month old son and I discoverd this story in a Little Golden Book box set. The first edition was published in 1946 and the illustrations have a notable charm from that era. The story was written in the third person with the characters speaking in whimsical rhyme. Even the taxi has an excitable personality as it "wiggles" and "jiggles" through the traffic "bouncing" and "jouncing" its passengers along the way. My son's favorite part is when the Taxi-driver Man must honk the horn to get through the traffic. This is a very fun story! My son was hooked after we read it the first time. And now I am looking for a first edition!