Japanese Tadoku Books by Students
Smith College Tadoku Project
Books created by Japanese learners like you :)!
寒いの夜、私も友達と一緒に散歩したい。寒いですが、手が暖かいです。犬を見て、スープを食べました。とても幸せですね。
The book doesn’t have difficult words and perfectly explains the new words with 可愛い drawings. Also, the plot features fairy tale exploration though it’s not fairy tale. I love it. I strongly recommend it to 一年生。The book looks so good and I think it can be published for kids and of course for Japanese learners.
この本はとてもおもしろいです。チチさんねこです。ちちさんはしんりんでまよいました。友だちを待っていました。たくさんどうぶつ（animal）は手伝いました。友だちはせがひくくて、みみがちいさくて、ちょっと太っていと言っていました。最後、ちちさんは友だちとおいしいケーきを食べました。いいですね。
The storyline is very warm, as all the others help Chichi find its friend. And it is very cute when they are guessing if the rabbit and other animals are Chichi’s friend.
There are some kanji (with hiragana on top) that we have not learned, like くろい(black). But it is easy to guess the meaning according to the pictures.
Also, it is a good review for Japanese first-year student because there are lots of sentences using と思いました andと言っていました。
I really like the pictures the authors drew! Those drawings are very cute. 海がだいすき！This book reminds me of a lot of 楽しいこと, though I did not get the ending. Overall, I like it.
I will recommend this to Japanese first-year students. The book is easy to read and interesting. Additionally, we can learn some new kanji.
この本はちょっとこわいです。おきくさんと言う女の人が死んでゆうれいになる話です。でもすごくおもしろかっ田です。日本語1年生にはちょっとむずかしいかもしれません。There quite a few expressions/verbs that we haven’t learned in 日本語１。But if you love ghost stories, this is a really good one. The pictures also explain the story pretty well, until at least halfway.
この本はおもしろかったっです。でも日本語1年生はしらないexpressionがすこしあります。For example、the phrases “とくべつ”、“泣きました”、“いろがかわりませんでした” are usually not familiar to a 日本語1年生。それから、ときどき grammar errorがあると思います。For example, “ざーざーふりです”じゃなくて“ザーザーふります”だと思います。でもストリはたのしかったです。それからこの本はえがとても！！とてもきれいです。I seriously envy the author’s art skills.なかなかおもしろい本でした。
スーパーで 「お母さんは、どこ？」はとてもかわいいと思います。りんちゃんはおもしろい子どもだと思います。お母さんはとても しんせつだと思います。この本が大すきです。
I thought this story was told very well. The drawings get across the story very well and also work great as cues for new words. This story is also useful to review te-form and reinforce some lesson 7/8 kanji. I would recommend this story to any Japanese 110 student.
冬のさんぼは とてもおもしろくて、すごくきれいでした。冬が すきです！
I really liked that story, the drawings were so pretty. I wish I was able to draw like this! The story was interesting as well even if it was sometimes hard to read because the black writing overlapped the drawings!
I definitely recommend this story!
みつはさんは、ちよさんに、でんわをかけます。ちよさんは、みつはさんのてつだうとききました。すうがくのしゅくだいは むずかしいから。
This was a really easy book to read because senpai only used the grammar and vocabulary we learned. However, I felt like the story shifted a little too much from helping Chiyo with math homework to discussing what to eat. It felt like they were planning to go hang out instead. Therefore I gave the book four stars. But I highly recommend to 1st-year students.
I read 海の旅行, An Ocean Trip. The illustrations were very cute! Seven is very excited and animated, and it made reading the book fun. It was easy to understand the unknown kanji and tango. Overall, I enjoyed it!
I would recommend this book to other Japanese 1st year students, because of the simple grammar and easy to follow plotline. Although, more advanced students could also enjoy it, thanks to how good the pictures are!
This book talks about the cats that live in the Japanese city of Tashirojima. The illustrations are well done and the content is both interesting and easy to understand. むずかじゃないです！
I would recommend to level 0 readers and first year Japanese students because the vocabulary is fairly simple and the sentence structure is simple as well which makes it accessible to new Japanese-language learners.