Congrats again on the grandson
I can only really speak of my experiences, but since I love reading they might be relevant to the survey


The simple, learn-to-talk-and-read kind with rhymes, bright colors, simple sentences, concepts like "bigger than" or "behind" etc. I think D Seuss, Richard Scarry, Sesame Street and so on are all good. The "Mr Men and Little Miss book collection is also fun for little kids.


I don't remember learning to read, but said Mr Men and Little Miss books are probably good, also the Golden book collection and things like the Berenstein Bear family...


Here I suppose it starts becoming a question of interest. As a kid of about 7-8 I loved science and history books, the kind with pictures of artifacts and maps and schematics and simple experiments. As I got older I switched over to novels like the Hardy boys and Nancy Drew, and gradually found my way to SF/F through Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series, Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles, and The Hobbit. Then by 12-13 I graduated out of the kid's section.


For a couple years, LotR, but now I haven't re-read a book in years. Too many new things to discover, to be wasitng time on something you've already read.


All of them! First you learn to read, then you learn facts and history and science, then you learn how other people see the world. In the very worst case, you learn never to read a certain author again


I can't remember, so probably one of the early ones