Start them young. Show them pictures they can identify with and read them words they are familiar with.
And more than all, let the young ones safely flip through these Board Books

Moo, Baa, La La La!
by Sandra Boynton
Good Night Moon
Meet Chuck the Dump Truck and other books
by Justine Korman
Fishy Things (Scary Touch and Feelies)
by Rod Campbell
Blue Train, Green Train : Thomas the tank engine

Mumble Jumble
by Lynne Gibbs
My Animal Book
by Glenn Johnstone
Look, There's My Hat
by Maureen Roffey
If I had a Pig
by Mick Inkpen
Rimpy Rabbit Learns A Lesson
by Neela Subramaniam 

Simple words, short phrases, colourful pictures....will hook any child to these books

Clifford
Mickey Mouse Club House

Winnie the Pooh
Galli Galli Sim Sim
Spongebob Squarepants
Chhota Bheem
Thomas the Tank Engine
Berenstain Bears
Arthur
Noddy

 

Moving up from picture books to story books...

Picture Stories : Mostly words with some pictures to break the monotony of the text

Short Chapter Books : One to two page chapters, ample humour, well thoughtout short books to keep a young reader interested in reading

Nate the great
Junie B. Jones
Jigsaw Jones
Yellow Bananas
Children's Bedtime Treasury
by Derek Hall, Alison Morris
Love Your Neighbour : Stories of Values and Virtuesby Arthur Dobrin
Mirette on The High Wire
The CaldeCott Award Winner
Come On, Rain!
by Karen Hesse
Holy Cow and Other Divine Beasts
by Sheila Dhir
Adam Sharp
Zac Power
Pixie Tricks
Start Maths - QED
StarGazers
by Gail Gibbons
Naughty Fairies
by Lucy Mayflower

 

The fun starts now!
Mysteries, Horror, Fantasy, Animal Adventures, Girl Fiction - they name the flavour and we have it!

Roald Dahl
Hardy Boys
Ruskin Bond
Judy Moody
Famous Five and other books
by Enid Blyton
Goosebumps
by R. L. Stine
Jacqueline Wilson
Fudge Series
by Judy Blume
The Fables of Aesop
Glitter Girls
The Ramayana
by Bulbul Sharma
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Harry Potter
Geronimo Stilton
39 Clues

 

One step below adult books. Thick in size and dense in content.

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
House of Night series
by P.C and Kristin Cast
Dark Material
by Phillip Pullman
Eragon
by Christopher Paolini
Theodore Boone series
by John Grisham
The Secret Series
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
Anthony Horowitz
Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
Vampire Academy books
by Richelle Meade