Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. There are many, many versions of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Some of these legends were written down more than 500 years ago in about the year 1470 by Sir Thomas Malory, who put them into a book he called Le Morte D’Arthur, or The Death of Arthur. His words were not the actual legends, though, but his retelling of even more ancient stories. Many of the words he used aren’t in our normal vocabularies anymore, so in order to tell the story in a way that we can all understand, I turned to a version that I read first many, many years ago.  When my dad was a little boy, he had a book called King Arthur and His Knights. By the time I had a chance to read it, the cover had been worn off from many years of hard usage. But the words were still there, and I was caught up in the exciting tales of knights and ladies and their amazing and sometimes magical adventures. The version I’ll be reading here is as close as I could find to that old version from my, and my dad’s, childhood. But even though these stories are so old, I think you will find them to be as fresh and exciting as they were when other generations of interested readers were enchanted by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In this first selection, we meet Merlin the renowned magician, King Uther Pendragon, Arthur’s father, and of course, young King Arthur himself! 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! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!