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. Hi everyone, welcome back. I can't believe it, we're two weeks away from Thanksgiving.

That's kind of crazy.

Weren't we just in spooky season? Actually, spooky season feels really far away. I think it's because

we're now so cozily ensconced in our Christmas spectacular and our Victorian Christmas,

and we've got this lovely book about Sarah and all her friends. It doesn't feel like spooky season at all anymore.

So I think we've done a good job transitioning from spooky season into this early Christmas

season that we're doing here on Storytime for grownups. So yeah, two weeks till Thanksgiving.

I'm excited. I hope you're excited too. So today is, in fact,

the Thursday when I am going to announce the winner of our first prize drawing. So those of you

who have been buying my book, Christmas Carol, and writing to me, have been entered into a drawing.

And this time, the drawing prize is a membership at the

house guest level in our online community, the drawing room. And so today I'm going to announce

the winner of that prize. And then on Monday, I will reveal what the next prize is going to be. So then we'll have another

two week period and then I will announce the winner of that and then there will be another prize.

So I'm excited about this and I just want to say before I reveal the winner, I just want to say

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