The 10分で読める series of books are often recommended to Japanese learners as a way to dip into reading native material, but I don't think they're necessarily the best option — at least, not the books for grades 1-3.
Each book only uses the kanji that Japanese kids are expected to know at that grade level, which sounds good for Japanese language learners in theory, but in practice makes actually reading the stories laborious because they're 90% hiragana and there's no way to know where one word sta
The 10分で読める series of books are often recommended to Japanese learners as a way to dip into reading native material, but I don't think they're necessarily the best option — at least, not the books for grades 1-3.
Each book only uses the kanji that Japanese kids are expected to know at that grade level, which sounds good for Japanese language learners in theory, but in practice makes actually reading the stories laborious because they're 90% hiragana and there's no way to know where one word sta