Yeah, had the animated version of that on tape... I remember never wanting to watch it because it was pretty sad.
Absolutely anything Dr. Seuss is pretty much fantastic. Where The Wild Things Are, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Berenstein Bears, the If You Give A... books, um... can't really remember many others. Those were all pretty fun books though as I recall.
I always really liked The True Story of the Three Little Pigs but I think that's for slightly older kids. It's a really fun and quirky book though.