Hello and welcome to Storytime for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this is summer session.

Normally on Story Time for Grownups, we read classic literature, a few chapters at a time with a few

notes along the way, like an audiobook with built-in notes. But during the summer, we switch

things up a little. From now until September,

we will be in summer session, which is sort of like a college class, only fun. This summer,

we're exploring fairy tales and their relationship to the books we've read this year on

storytime and storytelling more broadly. We'll do this in once-a-week episodes, which will drop

on Mondays. If this doesn't sound like your thing, don't worry. Storytime will be back with a new

book in September. But for now, brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in. Class

is in session.

Hello, welcome back. I miss you guys on Thursdays now. This is hard. I mean, I'm really excited

about fairy tales, and I loved chatting with Bose last week. I thought that was a really cool and fun way

to kick this off, and you guys have been writing in saying that you thought so too, so thank you.

Thank you for those emails and for letting me know

how you're doing at this point. But I do feel the lack of the Thursday episodes. And, you know,

I've been getting some emails from you guys saying that, you know, if you hadn't read some of the

books that we've done before, like Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice, some of you now get to go

back and listen to those. But I know that some of you are in real time, that you're actually here

in real time and you don't have anything to go back and listen to. And so I guess it just makes

us all the more excited for September when we get to go back to twice a week and read a book

together. But this is really fun and exciting too. So what I would

like to do today is talk a little bit about the history of fairy tales, a brief history, a very

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