The Reading Chair synopsis

The reading Chair

The book opens up on a little boy sitting in an oversized wingbacked chair with a book in his lap. Clearly waiting for people to join him. A blonde headed boy wearing blue footie jammies. Maybe he's surrounded by busy looking people doing other things.

Next page: He's sliding down off the chair. Pudgy diaper butt.

Next page: He drags the book over to his daddy who is working at his computer, pencil tucked behind his ear, papers in front of him.

The daddy scoops the baby and book up and settles them in his lap in the oversized chair.

Opening up the book he begins to read.

“Once Upon A Time...”

As the daddy reads, the baby imagines himself in the story with daddy.

Slowly as he reads, another child comes and sits on daddy's lap, a slightly bigger brother who'd been playing legos or cars.

A dog enters and lays down by the chair.

As each person enters, they join the baby's imagined story.

Mom stops washing or drying dishes and sits at dad's feet, petting the dog.

A teenaged daughter who had been busy on her phone, puts it away and leans on the back of dad's chair looking over his shoulder.

Baby falls asleep.

People go back to what they were doing.

Last page: A blonde headed man pulls the same children's book off a shelf and looks at it.

Then pulls a new baby close and says, “let's read a story.”

Maybe there's an imagined scene with the baby, and the mom starts to come in.