Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 【English/Japanese version】

This is a condensed, dual-language version of the Alice story that presents an English version first, followed by a Japanese version. The English version is a bit janky to be honest and at one point the Queen of Hearts shouts "Who the hell are you?" which caught me off guard in an unintentionally funny way, but that's not why we're here.

The Japanese in this particular dual-language version is all in kana with no Kanji, though I did find out there is a Kanji version of this particular edition also available. As much as it's kind of a meme that kanji is super hard, you do miss it when you don't have it and going kana-only actually made me take longer to read this than I probably would have otherwise. That said though, the Japanese version reads really nicely (the "Who the hell are you?" line in Japanese is more like "Who are you to oppose me?" which is much more fitting) and even as short and entry-level as it is I still grabbed one or two words.

The artwork is particularly well done and might actually be the real highlight here. It's done in kind of a western, European fairytale style, but there's just a bit of that Japanese influence creeping through that makes it a really nice balance.

I think this would have been more useful to me if I had grabbed the kanji version, so look out for that if this interests you, but I think this kana-only edition could still be useful for beginners.