Scooter and Friends Take a Vacation by Nancy Strom NAPERVILLE, IL / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / There are people who spend their lives collecting stories, even when they do not yet realize they are storytellers. Nancy Strom is one of them. Her life never followed the cinematic arc of a prodigy writer, nor the caffeinated urgency of someone chasing publication in their twenties. Instead, her imagination aged like an heirloom kept at the back of a drawer, waiting for

As I thought back to the favorite stories of my youth, the one that most often came to mind was The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham.

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