From this page you can download a free story, "Tommy Two Tones and the Silly Day." This story is in plain text, with no pictures.

You can download a plain text file (lots of things will let you read that, such as Windows Notepad, Windows Wordpad, Word, Mac TextEdit, and so on) here.

You can download a .pdf format version here.  To read that, you will need Adobe Reader or other software that can display Acrobat (.pdf) format files. If you have a Mac, you should be able to use Preview to read it)

If you don't already have Adobe Reader, it is available from
http://www.adobe.com or http://get.adobe.com/reader/