ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 1

Language Learning:

This book has easy to understand grammar and about a grade 3 level of kanji, some without furigana. There are a lot of words that are written kana-only that would normally be spelled with kanji in adult books, so that may be a slight annoyance to learners. Beniko, the shop owner, speaks in keigo but she says pretty much the same thing every story so I don't think it's a big deal. The story structure being similar every story also makes it easier to read, so overall this is an

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I love reading these books. It is just at the sweet spot for my Japanese level, and therefore, as a series, it opens up quite a fun way for me to read more and more easily. Each book broadens the world just a little bit, has enough predictable elements to keep it easy, and enough unpredictable elements to keep it fun. It's nice that the stories include both children and adults, and it felt more interesting as an adult reading for that.

Level: I believe these are targeted at 3-4th graders,

Engaging Stories that are Perfect for Beginners

All of the stories were roughly the same in terms of my interest. I was engaged throughout, but they probably wouldn't be stories I would have read if I wasn't reading to study a foreign language. The slight twists are enjoyable, and I found the characters interesting. As this is a children's book, the stories have pretty obvious life lessons. If you think this would be irritating, this probably isn't the book for you.

The stories all have a recurring structure. A bunch of people try and solve

Better than most other stuff that I have picked up

Writing this review already, over half way through, but I am already getting tired of the independent stories/chapters not continuing except for the very last line of each chapter where she logs the child and money received. I wonder if the broader story and her motives get addressed within the first volume or in later volumes? I am losing patience! Nevertheless, this is generally more interesting and an easier read than other books that I have picked up so far (generally try to avoid high schoo

I read it cause the kids do

I liked how easy this book is to pick up and put down. Each chapter is a self contained story with the only reoccuring thing being the sweet shop and the lady on the front cover.

It was also interesting although this series is aimed at kids, not all the stories were about children, some being about adults too.

Some parts were more tricky than others, such as how the lady speaks, it must be some sort of dialect, but the more you read the more you get used to it.

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Although I'd still say this book is a good choice for those new to prose, there are still difficult portions of the book. For reference, I found the grammar to be a bit more complex than something like 夜カフェ, but the language isn't as flowery as something like 魔女の宅急便. In fact, the descriptions are rather matter-of-fact, which made it easy to parse.

The reoccurring character 紅子 (the lady on the cover) speaks in a way that was difficult to understand due to keigo and some unfamiliar speech pattern