A Chair for Always

Name: A Chair for Always
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Vera B. Williams
ISBN: 9780061762444

Author: Vera B. Williams

Narrator: Martha Plimpton

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Published: 05/12/2009

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

There are some things that Rosa just knows. She knows that she can't wait to meet her new baby cousin, due to be born at any minute right upstairs. She knows that she will grow up and move away and maybe go to college, and perhaps even become the president of the United States. And she knows that the chair—that wonderful, beautiful, beloved chair, the chair for her mother—will always be there.Always. Just the way it is. Covered in velvet with roses all over it, ready for who-knows-what new adventure . . .

About Vera B. Williams

Vera B. Williams began her career in children’s books by illustrating Hooray for Me!, written by Remy Charlip with Lilian Moore. Her beloved A Chair for My Mother won multiple awards, including a Caldecott Honor, and “More More More,” Said the Baby also received a Caldecott Honor. Vera B. Williams was the recipient of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; she was awarded the 2009 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature; and she was the US nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Vera B. Williams died on October 16, 2015, shortly before her final book, Home at Last, was completed.

About Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton has starred in the films The Goonies and 200 Cigarettes among numerous others. A strong supporter of the theater, she donates her time and efforts to the ""52nd Street Project,"" a not-for-profit organization dedicated to matching inner-city children with professional theater artists to create original theater.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolynne on March 05, 2010

Another in the series about Rosa and her family that began with the luminous _A Chair for My Mother_. (Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983.) This is an adequate sequel, but really tells two stories: the first is about the birth of Aunt Ida's new baby, Rosa'......more

Goodreads review by Russel on June 13, 2017

This is a continuation of a Chair for Mother. This book continues with the adoribal little girl from the first one and continues with it's warm colored water colors. In the first book. It focused on her getting the chair, and in this one she is sharing and showing off her to her family and friends.......more

Goodreads review by Robert on December 07, 2018

This story is about a family that centers around the perspective of a little girl in the family as her mother works late and she spends evenings with her grandmother and her aunt gets pregnant and she learns about having a new baby cousin. The story has an interesting collection of painted images to......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on September 26, 2019

Lovely little story. It's nice to read a picture book where not everything is awesome, but the characters are working through it.......more

Goodreads review by Bridget on September 03, 2017

Eh. A serious lack of focus in the story.......more