I'm having a similar problem. I don't have the toddler bed against the wall, but my sims still can't read their toddlers to sleep. I have to pick up the toddler and place them in their bedroom before the interaction will work. Even then the sim will stand by the toddler bed and then reach to pick the toddler up no matter where they are in the room. It's very awkward and ruining one of my favorite animations.
So... new variation on the problem. Right after HSY released, I couldn't get my Sim to put the toddler to bed or read the toddler to sleep unless both were already in the toddler's room. I did have one glitch where the adult Sim walked upstairs, forgetting the toddler, then went back down to get them and actually put them to bed, but I assumed this was because during testing I hadn't actually made a room for the toddler bed, just had Sims at bottom of stairs and bed at top.
However today - after a game repair and a reset of my Sims folder for unrelated reasons - I told an elder Sim to read her toddler grandson to sleep before remembering that was broken. But since she didn't immediately give a routing error, instead of canceling I waited to see what would happen. She walked out of the kitchen (away from the toddler who had been right in front of her) out a door and up the stairs, stopping just outside the toddler's room. Then she went back downstairs and actually successfully picked him up, carried him all the way back upstairs and through the doorway to his room, and put him down on the bed. Then she froze with "read to toddler" queued while the toddler (with nothing queued) got back out of bed and walked out of the room and down the hall to the top of the stairs. He didn't yet have the skill level to navigate stairs himself, so not sure if he would have continued if he did. But he froze there a moment, then finally queued "listen to story" and started walking back to his room. Grandma immediately sat down on the bed and started reading. When the toddler finally got there, he tucked himself in under her and then the animation finally proceeded as normal.
So not perfect. But... progress?
Same, I bought 3 different toddler beds and put them in different positions in the room, and then in a different room, to see if the placement was the issue. Nope! Adults can't read the tots to sleep nor put them in the bed. This animation is like the prime way I teach them imagination. I miss it
Still broken in 2022 ☹️ please let us read to our toddlers again and please provide a update EA!
For real... ☹️
In my game they will sometimes be able to pick the toddler up and carry them to the room, but usually not. When it does work, it is usually the adult walking all the way to the toddler bed, then walking all the way back to the toddler to pick them up.
If both toddler and parent are standing in the room, the parent will go to the bed, a graphic glitch will happen where the adult's arms bend backwards and the toddler then teleports into their arms and then they put them to bed like normal. Once they froze after the teleport right before the change to sleepwear, but today they changed to sleepwear just fine.
