When my children were little, we had no TV! They loved me to read to them and were such voracious listeners that I opted to tape their favorite stories so they could listen to them whenever they wanted to, thus allowing them the repetition, and me the freedom to read new stories. My daughter's favorite story was "The Cat Who Walked Alone", by Kipling. I also purchased a few books on tape. "Huck Finn" was my son's favorite. The phrase "Tragedy, mostly."(from the abridged, spoken by the "Duke") is still one of our catch phrases.
Here is a link to the original text with the original illustrations, if anyone would like to read the book.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Twa2Huc.html