December 3, 2021

Read this based on the lengthy first review giving it tons of praise for being a great start into reading for upper beginners. Spot on and very approachable for mid-N4 level! The majority of this is very easy to understand language, with some sprinklings of specific words based on what time period Jack and Annie are in! Like ferns, extinction for the Dinosaur story and drawbridge, armor, banquet for the Knight story! There’s simple descriptive prose and lots of phrases are repeated so you can bet your bottom you’ll at least be aware of what it means even even you haven’t memorized it yet! I read it on Kindle with the Audible audiobook for the first story and half the second and that made dictionary lookups super fast and hearing it read by a native made it easier to figure out breaks in sentences. High rereading and relistening value.

My only grip is that in some of the pictures there’s text that you can’t select for dictionary lookups because they’re considered an image as well. It’s also small on Kindle but zooming helps a lot! Highly recommended. I’ll be reading more of this series!

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