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.

Music a cozy chair and settled in. It's story time. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Hi everyone, welcome back.

It's December.

We made it.

Santa Claus has, in fact, reached Harold Square in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade,

and therefore, it is officially the Christmas season.

So we made it, you guys.

We made it through our sneaky, surreptitious Christmas November and into a full-blown, joyful,

out there in the open Christmas in December.

I hope you had a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving.

I hope you were able to join us for our live stream, our family live stream that we had on

Friday.

Thank you for those of you who

did. If you didn't catch it and you'd like to, it's still there. You can still hang out with us.

I mean, we won't really be hanging out in real time, but you can watch it. The link is there in the

...