Maxi is a brand new taxi, flashy and bright.  He heads out for his first day of work with an enthusiastic smile.  In all his zipping and zooming he found lots of puddles, sticky fingers, and even a friendly pigeon left her mark. Now Maxi no longer sparkled – he looked more like Mr. Gooey-Goo.  No one wanted to ride is a dirty taxi! When he saw a boy and his mother wave, he zoomed over and stopped.  They weren’t excited about such a dirty taxi, but they had a solution – a car wash across the way.  Max was afraid to enter, but got sucked in anyway.  With a rumm, pish, flip-flop and blip blop the brushes tickled his muffler, bumper, and hubs. Out he zoomed, shining again.  The day ends with Maxi returning home without a bump or scratch.  His friend Mr. Buddy gives him an extra polish before tucking him in.

Fun rhyming language make this a good read aloud for young children.