Japanese Reading Ladders - Picture Books for Adults
Level 2
とうふこぞう Tōfu kozō by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 2ISBN: 4265079741Publication Date: 岩崎書店, 2015A little boy who is afraid of ghosts meets his first nonscary one (tofu kid).
Level 3
ことりぞ Kotorizo by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 426507975XPublication Date: 岩崎書店, 2015
あずきとぎ Azukitogi by Call Number: Umass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 4265079733Publication Date: 岩崎書店, 2015Azukitogi is the sound of azuki beans being washed, and is associated with a Japanese yōkai that washes azuki beans by the river. Or is that all he does?
つくもがみ Tsukumogami by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 4265079725Publication Date: 岩崎書店, 2013Tsukumogami is the term for old and no longer appreciated things that become spirits.
のっぺらぼう Nopperabō by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 4591119424Publication Date: ポプラ社, 2010Nopperabō are Japanese yōkai whose faces are blank. In this story a young boy is sent off to the mountains to collect firewood. As he goes everyone warns him to return home before dark because scary things happen when the sun goes down. And... it does.
おばけにょうぼう Obake nyōbō by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 4781609864Publication Date: イースト・プレス, 2013
うぶめ Ubume by Call Number: UMass Tadoku Level 3ISBN: 4265079717Publication Date: 岩崎書店, 2013
