Corduroy also features an African American girl as the main human character! One of the first to do so ( The Snowy Day featured a boy).
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Awww Eric Carle…that’s another author whose books my kids liked but I forgot to mention!
My kids also enjoyed Highlights Magazine and D got the American GIrl magazine.
Our S is a voracious reader beginning with Dr. Seuss, The Magic Treehouse, and Franklin the Turtle Books. I introduced him to sci-fi / fantasy with The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and he then graduated to Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, then sci-fi classics like I, Robot and Neuromancer. Now he’s a voracious reader of research.
He has always preferred books – real books and he has a collection of very old engineering text books that he values greatly.
I think we have read (and even own) most of the books mentioned here. I love to read and would read to the kids every day - sometimes, it would take multiple books before they were ready for bed.
Couple of favorite memories. D “reading” to herself from one of the Berenstein Bear books - she remembered most of the book, but when she got to a page where mama bear was watering her garden and papa bear was sitting around, she changed the story so mama bear poured the water over papa bear! H and I burst out laughing hearing her “read” this.
We have a video of D reading to S - he’s on her lap and surrounding them are 17 books - all books she read to him over the past hour.
I still give every newborn I know a copy of Goodnight Moon 
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I read all the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Three Investigators/Perry Mason series when I was a kid. But one of my favorite authors is one not well known here in the US - a british author - Enid Blyton. Loved her books and own most of those even now! My kids read them as well.
I always liked the Boxcar Children.
When my son was preschool age, he had a nonfiction book about bugs. He loved that book and had every single insect memorized.
Elementary school…Goosebumps and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Then Alex Rider books and Harry Potter as he got older.
Did anyone else’s kids read the Bailey School Children? D said she remembers reading those at school