b' About the Book: Read Now - Book - 2\n\nAcademic success is built on strong reading skills and higher-order thinking\ndeveloped at an early age. However, getting children to read can be challenging\nin this age of electronic distractions. In spite of this, experience shows that\nchildren do take to reading when interesting material is available.\n\nAdapted for South Asia from the internationally popular First Aid in English\nreaders, favoured by learners worldwide for over three decades, Read Now is a\nseries of graded readers for children of classes 1 to 8. The texts in these\nbooks are specially selected to arouse, maintain and satisfy the interest '