Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Released: 1905
You guys should totally check out this book. It’s way new.
Naw, I’m kidding. It’s like three thousand years old. This is the kind of story I could see reading to my kids, half a chapter each bedtime. I cannot see myself ever having wanted to read this [...]