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 until December 31, 2023. The stories that fall under that special permission will all be taken down on that date, so listen now, while they’re available! Today’s story is shared with permission of HarperCollins Children’s Books. 

Today’s story is “The Mystery of Mr. Jones’s Disappearing Taxi,” a segment from the book Mortimer’s Cross, by Joan Aiken. Mr. Jones’s taxi has been using a LOT of gasoline lately, and so Mr. Jones, Chris Cross, Arabel, and Mortimer plan a stake-out to discover why. They end up at Rumbury Tower Heights where all sorts of interesting things are happening.

Now 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 Stories Come to Life!
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