Stories Come to Life

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  What was written in the little notebook Nancy found hidden in the old Crowley clock? If she hadn’t been reading very carefully, she may have missed the brief comment about where to find the real will. Josiah Crowley certainly made it difficult for the Tophams to find and destroy his second will. That is good, b...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first part of Nancy Drew’s second mysterious adventure, The Hidden Staircase ! When this book was originally published in 1930 it had 25 chapters and included a lot of interesting description and plot details that were later deleted or changed. I prefer the original words, so that is what I’ve record...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Nancy Drew can’t seem to help attracting mysterious adventures. When she visits her old friend Abigail Rowen, she learns about a haunted mansion and promises to help the two maiden ladies who live there to figure out what is causing the strange happenings at their home. With permission from her father, Nancy pl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying!  Now sit back, relax, and lis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying!  Now sit back, relax, and lis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and convinced them to sell The Mansion to him at his price! Before they sign the final papers, it is vital that Nathan Gombit is brought to justice. Nancy D...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  After a wonderful cousin-filled summer with friendships and adventures and excitement, it is time to close the cover of this lovely book. The Story Girl, the King siblings and cousins, Peter the hired boy, and even the lachrymose Sara Ray must all go on where we leave them. But there is this last episode of cel...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  It’s apple picking time up at the Hill Farms, and the whole group of cousins is busy harvesting the ripe beauties and listening to the Story Girl weave tales. Things take a deeply serious turn, though, when one of their number walks precariously close to the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Now sit back, relax, a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  After a pleasant evening in the orchard when the grown-ups reminisced about their childhoods, the Story Girl had a wonderful idea for a new game the friends and cousins could play. Peter made quite an impression when it was his turn, and he actually sent nervous little Sara Ray into hysterics! These days of ear...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Dream journals, a poisonous cucumber, and a possible bewitchment! These are some of the things you will encounter in today’s episode of The Story Girl , by L. M. Montgomery. I think it would be wonderful to have a group of cousins and close friends to spend time with and have adventures with. What exciting live...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Is it a good practice to believe everything you read? When the Charlottetown newspaper prints a paragraph about how the mighty Day of Judgement may come on the twelfth at two in the afternoon, all the cousins and friends don’t know whether to be frightened or not. They all spend a long time searching their soul...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  It’s almost time for the adults to come home from their long trip. But there are still adventures for all the cousins before their aunts, uncles, and parents arrive. A dark orchard can still be a bit frightening after everyone’s imagination is stimulated by the Story Girl. And will the Story Girl’s cooking skil...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  When Uncle Alec, Aunt Janet, and Aunt Olivia leave for a wedding, Uncle Roger is left nominally in charge of the cousins. But it is really Felicity, the wonderful cook, who takes charge. Everything seems just fine, until she becomes too bossy. Dan rebels, and the consequences seem dire. What will happen when Da...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Poor Sara Ray wants so badly to go to the magic lantern show, but her mother, of course, has forbidden it. But because her mother will be out of town, she succumbs to the temptation the Story Girl proposes to sneak out and go anyway! But that leads to the Story Girl imposing a strict penance on herself. Was the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  It seems that the Story Girl’s voice makes any story more interesting and exciting. When she tells the eighty-year-old chestnut about a girl who won herself a husband, everyone hangs on the Story Girl’s every word. This is a summer of ups and downs for the cousins, as they try to figure out, among other things,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  The summer I turned twelve years old, I was so sad when I finished all of the Anne of Green Gables books that were readily available at that time. This was in the 1970s, well before the resurgence of Anne’s popularity. But I LOVED L. M. Montgomery’s writing, and I longed to read other things she had written. So...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote Anne of Green Gables, also wrote a delightful book about Sara Stanley, better known as the Story Girl. Told from the perspective of Beverley, one of two brothers who have come to stay on a farm with their aunts and uncles and cousins while their father is away, this book takes pl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  It’s late at night, and Frank and Joe Hardy have decided to see if their suspicions are correct and the counterfeiters’ lair is in the abandoned old Turner mill. Can they sneak across the moonlit grass to reach the mill before the suspicious Markel finds them? And how can they ever catch the gang of crooks? Her...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  The passing of counterfeit money is continuing to affect people all around Bayport. Fenton Hardy believes the crooks’ headquarters must be somewhere nearby. When the counterfeiters’ actions affect the Hardy boys’ own mother, they decide to go sleuthing to see if they can find out something that will help bring...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  When Frank and Joe allow a man to get on their new motorboat, Sleuth , they are in for an adventure. Not only does a storm come up, hiding their destination in a big bank of fog, but their passenger pulls out a revolver and insists that they go with all speed to Bayport to catch a non-existent train! Having a n...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  The Hardy boys and their friends are so tired of studying for their exams that they decide to go on a hike through the countryside on Saturday. When they come across the deserted old Turner Mill, they are surprised to see people working there. The mill race is flowing swiftly, and Joe and Frank soon become invo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Here is the first episode of the exciting adventure that comes to Frank and Joe Hardy in their third book, The Secret of the Old Mill . Almost from the very first minute, the boys seem to be plunged into the thick of a surprising situation. While they are waiting for their father to return to Bayport on the tra...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  How much Polly has experienced with the Shaw family! From her early visit to the big city where she came to realize that her simple ways could calm and entertain and bring peace to her friends, to the chance she has had to live on her own, teaching music and earning her living, Polly has been an influence of go...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Poor Fanny feels as if she doesn’t have a thing to wear! She can’t afford any new ball gowns, and the ones she saved after the family lost their fortune all seem old, outdated, and shabby. But Polly has the knack of making even an old dress look new and fresh, so Fanny feels a bit of hope that she might be able...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  Polly is a young woman of integrity. As such, she knows she can’t follow the modern trend of stringing young men along to flirt and make them fall in love with her, especially when she knows she can’t return the sentiment. So she does a very hard thing, and is then more ready to offer comfort and love to the en...