[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Contents:.
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Momotaro was born from a big peach that came down from the river. Accompanied by a dog, a monkey, and a kijiji, he sets off to exterminate ogres. ...... The text is written in a "textbook style," with ruby in all ...
This is a Japanese children's book retelling a classic folk tale. As an adult reader I did not find it particularly entertaining, but I appreciated it as an insight into Japanese folklore.
The book usually alternates between a full-page illustration and a page with a few short sentences, which means the overall story is quite short. Similar to a low-level Graded Readers book the illustrations helped me infer new words and the short sentences prevented frustration.
I want to point out that the book almost exclusively uses Kana (i.e. Hiragana and Katakana) and only uses very few simple Kanji (e.g. for "river" or "person", always accompanied by Furigana). This made it actually harder for me to read this book, because I struggled to tell where a word ended and had more trouble looking up unfamiliar words.
I read this book at ~N5 level, when I could quite comfortably read Tadoku Graded Readers at Level 1. I found this book significantly harder than Graded Readers and usually encountered an unfamiliar word (e.g. "ogre") or unfamiliar grammatical construct in every sentence.
Overall, this book offered me an interesting first peak into native reading material at a reasonable price, but I think more ambitious learners might prefer denser and longer content.