A poor woodcutter and his wife are unable to feed their children and decide to abandon them deep in the forest. Little do they know how clever their youngest child will prove to be!

Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, continues to provoke both hatred and idolatry, and there are now well over a hundred biographical books and essays on Stevenson and his work.

Welcome back to The Spark, NPL's podcast about art and creativity.

Today, following up on last month's discussion of tabletop roleplaying games at the library, we're joined by Andrew Palmer to discuss running D&D for teens, the relationship between tabletop and video roleplaying games, and making compelling stories for an audience via actual play podcast.

Watch Overdue Adventures' preview episode on NPL's Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9X_Dk9lG5I

Find RPG programming and much more on NPL's events page:
https://events.library.nashville.org/

Join us for The Spark every third Thursday!

Theme song by Joey Frevola

An old woman adopts a boy whose parents have died, but he is rude and lazy rather than industrious and helpful. Unable to get him to change his ways, she turns him into an ass. Will he finally become the good worker she hoped him to be?