This has some nice simple short stories, with an MP3 with clear native speakers, written in Hanzi and Pinyin, with a (somewhat flimsy) card to cover up the Pinyin. The stories are nice and seem typical of China during the immediate post-Mao and early Deng Xiaoping era, so they seem quaint today. The writing style is direct with lots of repetition. An incomplete vocabulary list is at the back, and unusual phrases are explained in marginal notes, so a low-intermediate student can pretty much read right through. Only about 1000 characters are used, so the level is low-intermediate. The book is light and medium size, easy to carry (but not pocket size).