Excerpt from The Taylor School Readers: First Reader The purpose of this First Reader is to provide lessons which will help children learn to read, and, at the same time, awaken in them a love of good books and good reading. It is intended, in short, to be the child's introduction to literature. In preparing and arranging the various lessons, the author's chief care has been to present such matter as is based upon the child's instinctive interests; hence the choice of subjects has been influenced by the character of the reading which children select when left to themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.