While audiobooks are common place today, once upon a time, they were called "Books on Tape" and they were actually ON a cassette tape. Many libraries had little bags that contained the a book, and a cassette tape with the story. You had to provide your own tape player.
In the Westra household, there was also storytime/reading aloud. At some point, Mom/Margie made some "books on tape" and in the present day, those tapes have been digitized. Now, in today's world, there are already several versions of Corduroy being read on YouTube ... but here for the Westra audience, we have Mom/Margie as the narrator, with the pictures added to follow along.
While at this point, the kids and grandkids are probably past the Corduroy age audience ... the original Westra six would probably get a kick out of hearing "mom" read a story again, and the latest generation could hear great-grandma read a bedtime story.
The book IS still being published and is available for purchase today. It's a classic! There's even a set that comes with a little bear, and there are some sequels I didn't know were out there. So hopefully the original six siblings enjoy this reminder of reading time in the Hermitage House with Mom ♥
This is awesome, Jen!!
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