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Can /lit/ recommend me a novel or story book specifically for JLPT N5-N4 reader? I currently in Japanese class and I would like to improve my recognition on Hiragana, Katakana and so on.

I did check on the recommendation but screw it, all are in English text. Can anyone actually recommend me a novel in Japanese text? Not to hard, my teacher still have a long way to teach up to N1 by the end of the next years.

>> No.2643861

The Kenji Miyazawa book on there is bilingual, and possibly appropriate for N4. He writes children's stories for about the 4-8 age group.

http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person81.html#sakuhin_list_1

There's his works in Japanese online.

>> No.2643887

Try Hoshi Shinichi's short-short stories. His science fiction will have a lot of words you won't know at N4 but if you have a half decent Kanji dictionary (or just use jisho.org) you can easily get the gist of the story.
You might be being too adventurous to try novels at N5 level. I'm in the same position and I've tried to but come up against brick walls. What have you tried reading before now? Any successes?

>> No.2643895

Some other Japanese children's authors with their works online.

Mimei Ogawa:
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person1475.html

Niimi Nankichi:
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person121.html
ごんぎつね is a famous one of his.

>> No.2643945

The Hamtaro books by what's-her-face are pretty easy to find in Japanese. Easy, cute... there's hamster poop.