Story for you

Free short stories with translations by great authors

You can buy these in book form, but the publisher offers them (and English translations) free!

Here in Japanese https://tree-novel.com/works/e0f09d12133434272f361fd94a749c2c.html

With professional translations in English here: https://tree-novel.com/works/4764e7fbdbd125a038248c0174a7ca8d.html

These are short stories by 60 different authors, written to entertain children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors are pretty well known, for example the second one is written by the author of 夜カフェ. The stories are generally uplifting, but the pandemic theme is generally present throughout. However, it's great to read at least some of them for several reasons:

• Full furigana
• See if you like an author's style
• Discover new authors
• Trying out reading prose is easier with short stories than a full length novel

I haven't read all of them, but I thought it would be helpful to put this out so others can find them! See the related Day to Day series, which has a similar concept but is targeted to adults: no furigana, also with translations, also free on the publisher's site.