I haven’t had much luck yet with having my kids listen to tapes in lieu of read-alouds. They just seem to tune them out. I’ve gotten Redwall, Little House in the Big Woods and others out of the library on cassette tapes (yes, we still own a couple of old-fashioned tape players – Thanks Mom!) and put them on when they go to bed or while we’re on long car trips. But they don’t respond to the stories at all. They don’t talk about them later, or theorize about what-might-have-happened-if, etc. like they do about the books I read to them. It’s been rather disappointing.
But!! The other day I got The House At Pooh Corner out and they love it! What seems to have delighted them the most however, is Pooh’s first poem in the book. After bed the other night, I heard peels of giggles coming from their room at intervals and this is why:
The more it
SNOWS-tiddley-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
On
Snowing.
And nobody
KNOWS-tiddely-pom,
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
Are
Growing.
To me, it’s just a pleasant, short, simple poem – only really funny because of Pooh and Piglet’s interaction regarding it. But not the boys: they try to recite it themselves, and always ask for the side that has “the funny part” on it. For some inexplicable reason, A.A. Milne really hit their funny bone with this one! Go Figure. 
One of my very favorites! Tiddely-pom.=)
Old friends, walking in the snow. Makes me want to put on slippers and drink tea from the nice teacups. I get the rose one.
With the big rose or the little roses?
Now, children, lets not fight over the teacups. =)