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 hope you're keeping cool wherever you are. I don't know about where you are,

but where I am, it's about 100 degrees right now, and it feels like hotter with whatever that

feels like thing is that happens. But I'm really happy to be here with you. I am excited to read

some more fairy tales today. I've got a great question to start off the episode, and then I'm going

to talk to a little bit about today's topic, and I'm going to read you some fairy tales.

So a packed episode today. I'm really excited about it, so hopefully we can get right into it after these few reminders.

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