Recommended Reading for Intermediates: the Chinese Superfudge?!

[Xiao Kui]

I want to recommend the series 淘气包马小跳 by 杨红樱 I bought these kids' books not knowing much about them but I was not disappointed. These are pretty relaxing but feature new vocab as well as commonly used dialogue: Easy enough to enjoy, hard enough to learn sth. new. These are basically novels for grade school kids and they really remind me of the books "Superfudge" and "Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. The star is 马小跳, a little Dennis the Menace type kid who's always getting in trouble. They are pretty funny, at times even off-beat and lol. They're available inside mainland China (don't know abt. elsewhere ) at just about any bookstore in the children's section for 13 yuan each. Here is what they look like in case you're interested: http://kid.sina.com.cn/maxiaotiao/ Been lookin' for a way to download the texts free from the web but no luck so far.

[smalltownfart]

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I have been chking this site quite a bit recently, it is kinda slow, but the

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Does anyone here have any experience with the site?

They have big discounts on nearly everything - the 淘气包马小跳 books u mentioned

are priced at 9.10 yuan, discounted from 13.

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If you have friends or relatives in china, especially in the main cities,

shipping costs next to nothing.