Hello and welcome to the Storytime for grown-ups' Christmas Spectacular.

I'm Faith Moore, and for the months of November and December, we'll be reading A Little

Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

Each episode, I'll read one chapter from the book, pausing from time to time to give brief

explanations, so it's easier to follow along.

It's like an audiobook with built-in notes.

So gather your family together, brew a pot of tea, or a mug of hot chocolate, find

a cozy chair, and settle in.

It's story time.

Hello everyone, welcome back. I cannot tell you how nice it is to be here with you in this new Christmasy way.

It's new for me, I will admit, to be talking about Christmas and listening to that Christmas music in the intro at this point in the year.

As I have said before, I am a stickler about the Christmas music and the Christmas decorations and everything. We usually don't pull any of

that out until Thanksgiving. But I have a free pass, you have a free pass to do it while we are

here, while we are all together here in our lovely Victorian mansion that is story time for grownups.

And I have to tell you, I'm kind of loving it,

especially after spooky season and Frankenstein. I mean, you know I love Frankenstein, but we

need a change of pace. And I'm feeling that change, and it's really, really fun. And I'm so excited to

start this book with you today. This is it. We're going to start the book. We're going to be

reading Chapter 1 of A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett today, and we will get to that very, very soon. But before we do that, just a couple of little housekeeping things, and then I do have some letters that I want to read to you before we begin. So the first thing to remind you about is that last time in our intro episode, and if you

missed it, it's still there. You can go back and hear a little bit more about this book before we

jump into it. But in that episode, I let you know that there is a prize drawing going on right now.

For those of you who buy a copy of my novel, Christmas Carol,

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