"How did we get here? How, like Tootle the Train, did we get so off track? Perhaps it's time to revisit these beloved stories and start all over again. Trying to figure out where you belong, like Scuffy the Tugboat? Maybe, as time marches on, you're beginning to feel that you resemble the Saggy Baggy Elephant. Or perhaps your problems are more sweeping. Like the Poky Little Puppy, do you seem to be getting into trouble rather often and missing out on the strawberry shortcake in life? Maybe this book can help you! After all, Little Golden Books were first published during the dark days of World War II, and they've been comforting people during trying times every since - while gently teaching us a thing or two. And they remind us that we've had the potential to be wise and content all along." - Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book (Diane Muldrow)

"Our family always had its Christmas on Christmas Eve. Other less fortunate people, I had heard, opened their presents in the chill clammy light of dawn. Far more civilized, our Santa Claus recognized this barbaric practice for what it was. Around midnight great heps of tissuey, crinkly, sparkly, enigmatic packages appeared among the lower branches of the tree and half hidden among the folds of the white bed-sheet that looked in the soft light like some magic snowbank." - A Christmas Story (Jean Shepard)

As we are in the midst of holiday travel season, I wanted to share some of my top audiobook picks to keep you entertained as you make your way over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house.

"There was a sudden jerk. Both men swung round to the window, looking out at the long, lighted platform as it slid slowly past them. The Orient Express had started on its three-days' journey across Europe." - Murder On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie)

"But seriously. I really wrote this book because getting to play fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore again made me reflect on what it had been like to play her the first time, and that made me reflect on how I even got there at all, and some of the ways my life had changed in between the first and second incarnations." - Talking As Fast As I Can (Lauren Graham)

"As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn. On all sides he beheld vast store of apples; some hanging in oppressive opulence on the trees; some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the cider-press." - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)

"The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of he air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folks hurrying along in the gloom of the night, as if on the wings of the wind." - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)

"And so, I give you DEAD ENDS. My brilliant friends and I have cooked up thirteen original, never-before-published spooky tales for you to enjoy this Halloween season. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did writing them. But be sure to lock the doors and windows first... you never know what the road ahead might bring." - J.T. Ellison

"I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading. I think I couldn't love my husband more, and then he vacuums all the glitter." - "What I Do All Day," American Housewife