A variation of the original suggestion of fairy tales, has anyone read Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes? I loved that collection when I was a kid. It retells several fairy tales with things drastically changed. Red Riding Hood carries a revolver, and has a love for wolfskin coats, for instance. I read them as a kid, but there are a lot of beheadings and the like for modern kid's book.
I wouldn't care to hear just regular ol' fairy tales, but I would enjoy hearing these read. They're all really short, all of them together could be a single flash piece, most likely. Just a thought.