I learned to read from Little Golden Books. When I started school it was the "Dick, Jane and Sally" readers. "Look, look. See Dick. See Dick run." If that were around nowadays it would be banned for pornographic content.
Back in my service days, that would mean a trip to the medic...
(sorry, couldn't resist)
My mother was an elementary school teacher and had a collection of those books, which I inherited. She said plenty of kids learned to read from those books just fine - the modern "readers" didn't do the job.
Maybe I should put them in a bank vault, along with my vintage Dr. Suess books that I had as a child - before the Kommissars come after them for being racist and sexist (no trans characters).