Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. During this time of Covid, many people aren’t able to use the library in the same way as in the past. To help bring more stories to more readers, many publishing companies are allowing books that are normally unavailable for copyright reasons to be read out loud and shared with others. The stories I will be reading from January 2021 until May 2021 are shared with permission of Penguin Random House Publishers, HarperCollins Children’s Books, and MacMillan Publishers. These episodes will all be taken down on June 30, 2021, so listen now, while they’re available! 

Today’s story is the last part of “Mortimer’s Tie,” a segment from the book Arabel and Mortimer, by Joan Aiken. The Jones family is aboard The Queen of Bethnal Green sailing on a cruise to Spain. Everything seems fine until Mortimer loses his beloved green tie and sleepwalks through the whole ship looking for it!

Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.