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[DeepL Translation - needs review] A little mysterious and warm story by Hoshio Sanae of "Letterpress Crescent Moon Printing Co, A little bit mysterious and warm story by Hoshio Sanao of "Letterpress Crescent Moon Printing
Fifth grader Nanako and her parents move into an old single-family house in Sakaki Town. At night, she hears someone talking in her room, and strange things happen. One day, Nanako sees her classmate Toba talking alone in the park. No one was nearby, but she could hear a ...
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(5/5)This is an adorable, feel-good story set in modern Japan with some fantasy elements.
I don't want to give too much away because I had so much fun discovering the fantasy elements page by page.
If you're looking for a story with not much action or urgency, just good vibes without romance and focused on a very small set of characters, then I highly recommend giving this a try!
Just to mention, the book only has partial furigana, which I thought was a great challenge for me personally.
I loved the story and how it developed. I was glad to have read it based on Yukitanuki's recommendation and not having read the blurb on the jacket of the book so each part of the mystery was a surprise as it unfolded.
It's a great book for early practice for kanji reading on paper. Whereas the 銭天堂 series is for 3rd - 4th graders, this book is for 5th-6th graders.
More specifically, the kanji/kana/furigana strategy is as follows: Kanji always shown through grade 6, from junior high maybe o