Stories Come to Life

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life.  This is episode 17, book 2, and I am your host,  Kathryn Lopez Luker.      Maida is learning to deal with the troubles that come to her as she keeps her little shop. And Billy Potter spins a marvelous fairy tale for Maida and Rosie!  To hear more, sit back, relax,  and listen to this story come to life! Listening to audiobooks really does count as...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life.  This is episode 16, book 2, and I am your host,  Kathryn Lopez Luker.   To Maida, who is living in Primrose Court almost as a princess in disguise,  her new life of shopkeeping and friends is as magical as a fairy tale. But not everyone is as kind to her as she is to others. Thankfully,  she is becoming very good friends with Dicky Dore, who lives...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode fifteen, book two, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   Maida has opened her little shop, and now she is beginning to meet the children who live and go to school around Primrose Court. Listen as Maida meets Dicky, the naughty Betsy Hale, and of course, the amazing Rosie Brine! Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story com...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode Fourteen, book two, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   When I was ten years old, I spent several weeks visiting my cousins during the summer. While I was there, I found my aunt’s treasured copy of Maida’s Little Shop , written by Inez Haynes Irwin and published in 1909. I was enchanted by the book and thought you might enjoy...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker, and this is episode Thirteen. As we have just finished a book, this episode will be a refreshing poetic interlude before we begin the next story.  So many times, the words of poetry come back to us during difficult or happy or emotional times in our lives. Here is a selection of some poems you may remember from...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode 12, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. There are still some important questions to answer in this book: Will Tom and Becky ever be found in the cave? Whatever happened to the treasure,  and Injun Joe? And will Huckleberry Finn ever have a warm and comfortable place to sleep?  To find out,  sit back,  relax,  and list...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is Episode Eleven, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   Everyone loves a picnic, and Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher are no exception. Not only is there a big outdoor feast and some games,  but there is also a deep limestone cave to explore.  But while Tom and Becky are roaming through the cavern's labyrinth, Huckleberry Fin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode Ten, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   Who wouldn’t want to find buried treasure? Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn know there must be treasure around, it stands to reason. But when they get trapped in the old haunted house on Cardiff Hill, they wonder if the gold and silver they saw is worth their lives! Now, sit b...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode nine, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   Tom’s conscience is troubling him. He and Huckleberry Finn were secret witnesses to a murder, but the man who committed the dreadful deed seems to be getting away with it! Should Tom tell what he knows? But he and Huck swore a terrible oath to keep mum. Tom has to decide wha...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode eight, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   It’s almost summer vacation in Tom Sawyer’s town of St. Petersburg, and Tom has plans to leave school with a bang. But first he needs to make things right between himself and Becky Thatcher.    Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life!  Listening to audiob...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode seven, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   When Tom Sawyer, Joe Harper, and Huckleberry Finn traipse into their own funeral service, of course everyone is amazed and surprised and thankful. But is life all smooth now that the boys have returned safely? Of course not! Somehow, Tom always gets into a scrape.   Now sit...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode six, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.   Even pirates on an idyllic desert island can get homesick, and Tom Sawyer, Joe Harper, and Huckleberry Finn begin to get tired of playing all day and doing nothing. Plus, maybe the people at home are missing them. Should they go back? After some consideration, Tom hatches a m...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode five, book one.  Poor Tom. No one appreciates him, and no one appreciates his best friend, Joe Harper either. So the two of them, and Huckleberry Finn, of course, decided to leave civilization and become pirates out on Jackson Island!  Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life! Listening to audiobooks really does co...

Send us Fan Mail Read along with Kathryn Lopez Luker, Children's Librarian at Marshall Public Library Everyone likes to listen to a good book, and there are so many wonderful books to choose from! So we decided to bring you this podcast of Stories Come to Life. Each episode features a chapter or two (or three) from either classic or modern literature especially chosen to be interesting and ex...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life! This is episode three, book one: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.  In this episode we find that Tom Sawyer, like so many young boys, does NOT like school. But there are some compensations, a cute new girl in class, for example. And of course there is always the excitement of talking to Huckleberry Finn! So sit back, relax, and listen to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life.  This is episode two, book one, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.  In these chapters we will find out what happens when Tom makes plans to impress a girl, in church!  So sit back, relax, and listen to this Story come to life!  Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stori...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. This is episode one, book one, and I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker.  I’m the children’s librarian at Marshall Public Library in Pocatello, Idaho. I love reading books aloud and helping others to find interesting and exciting things to read. Today I will be reading the first chapters of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.  In this episo...