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. Hi everyone. Welcome back. I'm really excited about this

episode, you guys. I got some really great,

really juicy questions that I'm going to talk about at the start of this episode, and we're going

to do some story time. We're finally going to read some of these fairy tales. We had to do some

intro work so that we were ready, but now we're going to, first we're going to talk a little bit.

We're going to answer some questions.

I'm going to talk a little bit about the stories that we're going to hear today.

And then we're going to hear some stories.

So a lot going on in this episode, jam-packed episode.

You'll notice it's quite a bit longer than last week's episode.

But hopefully you don't mind. I don't mind. I'm so

happy to be here with you. So we're going to dive into it in just a minute. But before we do that,

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