手ぶくろを買いに

A forgettable children's story

This felt slower to read due to having only the basic kanji included, so mostly hiragana, but then had some words used that turned out to be N2 and N1 when I looked them up. Still, very short overall.

It is slightly cute at the end I guess. At my level there should be more interesting reads out there!

Cute little story about a momma fox and her kid going to buy mittens. It's pretty short and judging by a quick internet search seems to be well known/still a popular kids story. The grammar is a smidge old and the vocabulary might be more spread than someone just coming out of textbooks is fully equipped for, but I'm inclined to put this at the high end of N4 or the very beginning edge of N3. I think it should be quite comprehensible with a dictionary. I highly recommend listening to a YouTube 朗読 while reading along. There's one linked on this page.