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. Hi everyone. Welcome back. Welcome to the conclusion episode of our Victorian Christmas Spectacular. I hope that you enjoyed the final chapters of A Little Princess. I loved sharing them with you. And today we're going to kind of tile this up with a lovely Christmas bow. We're going to chat together for a while, and then

we're going to move forward into a little break, and then David Copperfield. So I'm so thrilled

to be with you here now. I want to just start by saying thank you. Thank you so much to everyone

who has been a part of this Christmas spectacular. Thank you to the kids. Thank you so much to everyone who has been a part of this Christmas spectacular.

Thank you to the kids. Thank you to the adults. Thank you for everyone who participated in the

various activities that we did. Thank you for everyone who bought my book this Christmas season.

Thank you for writing in with your questions and your comments.

This has been such a wonderful, joyful experience to do this with you.

I have really felt that we have all kind of connected in new ways, and this community has really

grown and kind of knit itself together in a really lovely, a really exciting way. So that's the first thing I want to say

is thank you. Thank you for being a part of our Victorian Christmas spectacular. It's been such a

joy. So today we're going to talk about the end of the book, and we're going to talk about some

themes and bigger ideas that have been kind of running through the entire book

all along, and I'm going to try to tie all those together and send you off into the Christmas

season. But before I do that, I have a couple of housekeeping details. The first is that I would

like to announce the winner of our final prize drawing. So all along, we've had these

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