- A reluctant-reader teen's quest for a solution to an due-yesterday English Lit assignment leads to her discovering the value of the audiobook. She encounters temperament, talent, and a glimpse of the supernatural as she wends her way through a series of recording studios, until her imagination skyrockets her into a full-blown 1830s Mad Tea Party Scene: Alice in Wonderland meets Audiobooks.—Gabrielle de Cuir
- Celia, who has great passion for ballet but not for reading, has a book report due on Monday; if she does not deliver, she doesn't get to be in the Spring Dance Recital.
She takes on a delivery to a local audiobook recording studio to pay for a pre-written paper. An eccentric little rabbit of a man guides her through the studios.
Studio One houses the Actor from Hell. He reads a very boring version of Moby Dick and Celia rests her case that audiobooks, too, are boring,
Studio Two reveals an author who begins to enchant her by the simplicity of his reading; so much so, that she begins to see characters appear. She becomes so enthralled that she takes over the engineers duties. Unfortunately, this gives one of the mischievous characters a chance to steal her delivery package and disappear into Studio Three.
Celia pursues her package into Studio Three, Audiobook Heaven: the quintessential British Actor reading Lewis Carrolls Alice. Celia is dismayed to find that her package is actually in the booth with the reader, so she barges in and tumbles headlong into a full blown 1830 enactment of the Mad Tea Party.
Celia finds her way back to our world, and finally delivers the package with the condition that she listen to the audiobook herself and that she writes her own paper.
In closing, Celia is fully immersed in the art of listening to a book and her imagination runs wild with delight.
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