With the youngest preschoolers, what matters most is that children learn to turn the pages and connect in some way to the material contained in a book. Board books and cloth books should be bright and bold in illustration or may contain manipulatives --- textures, mirrors and holes to look and poke through, such as in the classic, "Pat the Bunny." Don't worry about the text; your responsibility as a teacher or parent is to engage your little readers in responding to the book. Ask questions and make remarks about what you see looking over the child's shoulders.
Read books with engaging poetry, even at the expense of story. Dr. Seuss is a classic author for this, and the sillier the lines and rhymes the better. Invite the children to sing the poetry and dance to it, especially if one or two lines in particular grab their interest. Ask the children what green eggs might taste like, and branch out to other colors of eggs. When you return to this book, come prepared with some of the foods the children have suggested might make eggs green, blue or pink. If you have the facilities, you can even make blueberry scrambled eggs.
Children will ask to have their favorite books read to them so often that they hold parents and teachers to accurate readings. Start with these beloved stories, having the kids bring in their books from home and "read" them to their classmates. Next, let them read to younger children or to pets or even to stuffed animals. Some public libraries have "read to a dog" programs that allow young children to be in control and authoritative.
Take a book with multiple scenes or a collection of short stories such as "Aesop's Fables," and invite the children to act the stories out. Young children will not be reluctant to take the parts of animals, but it may engage the children even more deeply to ask them to "translate" the story into a human family or your own classroom.