WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:04.080 align:middle line:84% So the next section is going to be one of these little fairy 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:04.640 align:middle line:90% tales. 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:07.140 align:middle line:84% And I'm going to read it to you, not only because it's next, 00:00:07.140 --> 00:00:09.900 align:middle line:84% but to give you a sense of these little interspersed sections. 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:11.400 align:middle line:90% And there are also-- 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.060 align:middle line:84% those were the only sections that my six-year-old 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.210 align:middle line:84% was hearing when I Skyped into Kate's class last year. 00:00:21.210 --> 00:00:23.040 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:25.020 align:middle line:84% And my child would not leave the room. 00:00:25.020 --> 00:00:27.420 align:middle line:84% And I was like, well, there are about seven pages 00:00:27.420 --> 00:00:29.280 align:middle line:90% that you can read in this book. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.290 align:middle line:90% And here they are. 00:00:31.290 --> 00:00:34.660 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:34.660 --> 00:00:35.160 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:38.040 align:middle line:84% Once upon a time, there was a sweet, darling, young wolf 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:41.820 align:middle line:84% who lived alone in the forest and loved pretty things. 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:44.280 align:middle line:84% Now this wolf was a strange wolf, quite small, 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.440 align:middle line:84% maybe part coyote on his mother's side. 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:47.910 align:middle line:90% Or, maybe his father was a fox. 00:00:47.910 --> 00:00:50.040 align:middle line:90% No one knew. 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:51.930 align:middle line:84% The pack had reared him after his mother 00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:53.740 align:middle line:90% died as the pack does. 00:00:53.740 --> 00:00:56.850 align:middle line:84% But he knew they did not mind his absence, found him easier 00:00:56.850 --> 00:00:59.565 align:middle line:90% to miss than accommodate. 00:00:59.565 --> 00:01:02.790 align:middle line:84% Out on his own the young wolf had been lonely at first, 00:01:02.790 --> 00:01:06.810 align:middle line:84% but also happy to be in the center of such beauty. 00:01:06.810 --> 00:01:08.430 align:middle line:84% The wolf loved the little violets 00:01:08.430 --> 00:01:10.770 align:middle line:84% that grew in the grass, the dappled sunlight 00:01:10.770 --> 00:01:14.550 align:middle line:84% on the soft pine needles, the sharp shiny icicles hanging 00:01:14.550 --> 00:01:17.370 align:middle line:84% from the trees, the little thatched cottage where 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:19.080 align:middle line:90% the old human woman lived-- 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:22.530 align:middle line:84% maybe even the old human woman, herself. 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:26.640 align:middle line:84% He studied her every day admiring her soft furless skin 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:28.080 align:middle line:90% like fallen leaves. 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:31.860 align:middle line:84% Her silver and red hair, so like his own handsome coat. 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:33.570 align:middle line:90% Her raspy bark. 00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:37.900 align:middle line:84% How she gestured delicately with those thin little paws. 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:40.530 align:middle line:84% He watched her read her books by the fire soaked 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:43.312 align:middle line:84% in her clawfoot tub, meet occasionally 00:01:43.312 --> 00:01:44.520 align:middle line:90% with a bad smelling woodsman. 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:45.840 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.160 align:middle line:84% What did she think about, he wondered. 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:51.390 align:middle line:84% Why didn't she do the things she did? 00:01:51.390 --> 00:01:53.130 align:middle line:84% The young wolf struck up a camaraderie 00:01:53.130 --> 00:01:55.710 align:middle line:84% with an old fox who also lived near the cottage. 00:01:55.710 --> 00:01:57.600 align:middle line:84% Sometimes the old fox and the young wolf 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:00.510 align:middle line:84% watched the human woman together with no discussion. 00:02:00.510 --> 00:02:01.890 align:middle line:90% Did they love her? 00:02:01.890 --> 00:02:03.630 align:middle line:90% Want to eat her? 00:02:03.630 --> 00:02:06.330 align:middle line:90% The wolf didn't know. 00:02:06.330 --> 00:02:08.070 align:middle line:84% One morning after having gone out 00:02:08.070 --> 00:02:10.919 align:middle line:84% of his way to avoid the bad smelling woodsman, 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.980 align:middle line:84% the wolf found himself near the loud, bland human path 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:15.960 align:middle line:90% through the undergrowth. 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.060 align:middle line:84% He snacked on a few blackberries here and there, 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:21.630 align:middle line:84% and made one desultory pass at a too quick rabbit 00:02:21.630 --> 00:02:25.140 align:middle line:84% as he wandered pleasurably through the undergrowth. 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:27.870 align:middle line:84% As he neared the path the wolf smelled something disturbing, 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:33.180 align:middle line:84% human adolescent co-mingled with old milk, dead meat, smoke, 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:34.740 align:middle line:90% and yeast. 00:02:34.740 --> 00:02:36.870 align:middle line:84% He could hear the blundering human sounds-- 00:02:36.870 --> 00:02:39.660 align:middle line:90% crunching footsteps, a low song. 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:44.480 align:middle line:84% He crept closer to look, and a child, really a maiden, passed. 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:47.670 align:middle line:84% It was a younger version of the old woman, a sort of pup, 00:02:47.670 --> 00:02:50.760 align:middle line:84% draped in a gorgeous, expensive-seeming blood 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:52.650 align:middle line:90% red cloak. 00:02:52.650 --> 00:02:55.800 align:middle line:84% The wolf thought he might like to wear that cloak. 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.380 align:middle line:84% He felt mysteriously compelled to reveal himself. 00:02:58.380 --> 00:03:01.320 align:middle line:84% But he did not know how to do so without frightening 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:04.170 align:middle line:84% the human maiden, and so stayed hidden. 00:03:04.170 --> 00:03:06.645 align:middle line:84% He consulted with his friend, the fox. 00:03:06.645 --> 00:03:10.380 align:middle line:84% "Ah, yes," said the old fox, "hmm. 00:03:10.380 --> 00:03:13.530 align:middle line:84% There's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?" 00:03:13.530 --> 00:03:15.570 align:middle line:84% "I don't know," said the wolf sadly. 00:03:15.570 --> 00:03:18.240 align:middle line:90% "I don't know what I am." 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.390 align:middle line:84% The old fox smiled a dangerous, toothy smile. 00:03:21.390 --> 00:03:22.890 align:middle line:84% "I will try to teach you," he said. 00:03:22.890 --> 00:03:23.950 align:middle line:90% "You may learn. 00:03:23.950 --> 00:03:26.070 align:middle line:90% You may not." 00:03:26.070 --> 00:03:28.230 align:middle line:84% After many days and nights the young wolf 00:03:28.230 --> 00:03:32.010 align:middle line:84% did learn some small measure of the old fox's teaching. 00:03:32.010 --> 00:03:34.380 align:middle line:84% When the maiden next came up the human path, 00:03:34.380 --> 00:03:37.080 align:middle line:84% the young wolf knew mostly what to do. 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:38.550 align:middle line:90% He revealed himself. 00:03:38.550 --> 00:03:40.920 align:middle line:84% And when the maiden went still with fear, 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:44.580 align:middle line:84% the young wolf pounced right into her just like that. 00:03:44.580 --> 00:03:48.060 align:middle line:84% The young wolf stroked his furless, soft hands, 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:51.060 align:middle line:84% cuddled into the long floor velvety red cloak, 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:54.060 align:middle line:84% and set off weak, but tall, to meet 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:56.500 align:middle line:90% his beloved, old human woman. 00:03:56.500 --> 00:03:57.000 align:middle line:90%