Japanese Tadoku Books by Students
Smith College Tadoku Project
I will recommend this book or story to 1st-year Japanese students.
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!
この本はとてもかわいくて、たのしです。本の物語はとてもおもしろいです。私はこの本がすきです！
The story is about a policeman who gets called to a house to deal with something pretty unusual: an alligator! It is a really energetic and fun story and the characters in it are super adorable and endearing. The final joke in the book is really unexpected but also super cute and funny!
I definitely recommend this book, especially to my fellow 1st year Japanese students. There are a few new vocabulary words but the illustrations make these very clear and the grammar structures are definitely ones we have learned. This book is well worth the very short amount of time it takes to read it!
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!
この本はとてもかわいくて、やさしです。It is about the 木村family. There are four people in the family: お母さん、お父さん、their daughter 由美、and their son 一郎。One day, あとで お父さんと由美と一郎はうちに帰ります、they prepare a surprise birthday celebration for お母さん！
This is a simple story with simple vocabulary and grammar structures. It is a great read for Japanese 110 students looking to refresh on the things we have learned in class. It is also just a very sweet story of a kind and caring family!
このほんは おもしろいです。日本の食べものが すきです！
This book is about the different forms of soya beans. I did not know they were so many ways of cooking these, and I did not know Japanese people eat them under so many forms! 日本人が えだまめとしょうゆともやしとなっとうととうふとあぶらを 食べます。すごいです！
This book was really interesting and they even made なっとう cute! I would recommend it for beginners because it is easily understandable. Of course, some words are unknown but they are guessable with the context!
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.
七夕は大好きな本です。子供の時、このストーリーを聞きました。とても古くて、おもしろいです。This book is about the legend of Qianniu and Zhinv, how they fall in love with each other, get punished by the god, and only get to meet each other once a year. It is very beautiful.
The pictures are really cute and the whole book is easy to understand! I highly recommend it because we can all learn about the true origin of Qixi festival from it.
この本が大すきです！！この本の中にかいでるえはとてもきれいでよむ時すごくたのしかったです！I really loved the layout as well, and I feel like with just a bit of cleanup, this could actually be a published picture-book. 私も今本をつくっていって、この本のlayoutをべんきょうしています。ストリはかわいいこども二人がさむい冬のあさに出掛けてぼうけんをするはなしです。It even tells a lesson of not giving up and the joys of a warm, loving home through its heartwarming ending. あまりむずかしくないですからよんでください！
この本はとてもたのしくて、おもしろいです。It is about two cats、京子さんと京子さんのいもうと、マヤちゃん。The siblings love each other very much but Kyoko sometimes gets bored of their house. One day, Kyoko goes on an adventure in the forest. During her adventure, she meets a butterfly, another cat and a dog. By the end, she has enjoyed herself but is happy to be home and has a new appreciation for her home’s safety and peacefulness.
This was a really cute and enjoyable book. The pictures are とてもかわいいです。I wonder if they are pictures of the author’s real cats?!?
I would definitely recommend this book for Japanese 110 students. It was a fun and quick read which used a lot of different vocabulary and grammar structures which we work on in class.
この本はとてもかわいいです。The drawings are すごくきれいで、おもしろいです。It is a very charming book about the winter adventures of two friends, アンナとリース。The two kids play in the snow, meet an adorable dog and eventually arrive at a warm and cozy restaurant with おいし食べもの！
As I previously mentioned, the quality of the art in this book is really amazing. Combined with the charming story, it makes this book a thoroughly delightful read. It also made me nostalgic as it reminded me of many of my childhood winter adventures with my friends, growing up in Minnesota.
I definitely recommend this book, particularly to my fellow first-year Japanese students. I will caution that there is a decent amount of unfamiliar vocabulary in the book so it is not one of the easier level 0/tadoku books. この本はやさしいくない。However, it is well worth the effort it takes to read it!