Storytime Rocking Chair — 'Seats Four'

My favorite chair of the year.

Hal Taylor, a custom rocking chair maker in Fredericksburg, Virginia, wanted to read to his three small children while they all shared a conventional rocking chair.

He found it impossible.

So he invented the "Storytime" chair (above, with Taylor and his three kids, and below).

It's a four-passenger rocker with a child-sized ledge on each arm.

Annie Groer featured it in an item in today's Washington Post Home section.

The good news: it's not a prototype — you can buy one for you and yours.

Taylor will be at the 19th annual Washington [D.C.] Craft Show this weekend — Friday, November 17 through Sunday, November 19.

The location: Washington Convention Center: 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW; 800-832-7813; www.craftsamericashows.com; Admission: $14.

Tell him joe sent you.

It won't change anything but it'll amuse me.

Don't worry — I'll know.