I read to my youngest until he was 14. He grew up with me reading to him at bedtime and just enjoyed it.

We started with Detective Dinosaur and ended with either One Hundred Years of Solitude or Ender's Game. Don't remember which.

With the really young kids you could lead with One Hundred Years of Solitude. There are lots of times you're not really showing them pictures in the book—or they're too young even for that, really, can't focus their eyes well—and they just need to hear the sounds and flow of language, not to understand every word (or any words). I read mine To the Lighthouse and shit like that, it was great, I think each kid got three or four "classics" while very young. I could pare down my own to-read list while being "a good parent", LOL, felt like a cheat code.