Your child will sit for a story but will not touch a book on their own — yet. This is a shelf of the most irresistible read-alouds there are: funny, fast, impossible to put down. You read the first chapter out loud, doing the voices, and somewhere in the laughing they lean in, and then one night they grab the book out of your hands to see what happens next. That's the whole plan. Pick the one that fits your child's age and mood tonight, and start reading.
Any single one can be the book that flips the switch. What they share is pull: every one is funny or warm enough that a child forgets they were resisting. The trick is the same with all of them. You read aloud, you ham it up, and you stop right before something good happens — then you leave the book where they can reach it. Elephant & Piggie and the Pigeon and the dragons are the pure-comedy way in for the youngest. Frog and Toad, Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter & Tabby, and King & Kayla are the gentle early readers built for reading turn-about, a chapter each. Charlotte's Web is the big one, the first real novel to read a chapter a night — save it for when they can sit for a longer story. Pick by your child's age and what kind of night it is, and don't be surprised when they finish the last page and ask for the next book themselves.