Suggest me a book to read aloud to my grade one students

I just took over a grade one class as my first classroom ever. I’m beyond excited. Because I’m starting with them in the middle of the year, I’m working on forming community with them. One way I’d like to do this is integrating a 10-15 minute read aloud soft start for them after lunch.

Can you suggest some novels I could read to them that would interesting and age appropriate? I’m open to any suggestions and any genre, really, as I’m just exploring options right now. Ideally this is a book we could spend a chunk of time with, as I might integrate some lessons with it. But mostly, this is just for reading to them as a soft start.

Thank you so much ☺️

by Ghouly_Girl