Level 2: Mainly hiragana and katakana text. If there are kanji, furigana is given for each kanji. The text is longer but still contains a lot of pictures to aid student comprehension. Japanese native readers would be five to eight years old.
はな
[ふねさん]
~90 words
I really liked this one. It’s still hiragana-only, and the sentences are really basic, but it throws in a bit of onomatopoeia, the art is pretty cute, and there’s an actual story, which is kind of sweet. There were a couple words I didn’t know, but I was able to figure most of it out just via context and then checked if I was correct after, so that’s pretty much exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for.
かいじゅうのたまご
ゆうま・み
~150 words
Quite liked this one too, it was a bit funny and silly. Used simpler words, but more complex sentences/concepts, and it fit well as a landscape format on my phone.