Alice in Kanji Land, Cure Dolly (2017)
Through a narrative loosely analagous to Lewis Carroll's, this book introduces the first couple hundred kanji that a Japanese child learns. I find some of the mnemonic associations helpful, and appreciate the gentle whimsy with which Cure Dolly approaches a subject that, no matter how one slices it, is always going to be tough for a Western learner. I would have preferred a more systematic approach in terms of kunyomi and onyomi, but maybe that would have been impossible given the aim of the book. I found it toughest to wrap my head around how okurigana work.