Graded readers using traditional Chinese characters?

Question

Graded readers are very useful for practising extensive reading. Extensive reading has several benefits, for example, getting a lot of comprehensible input.

I have found several series of graded readers that use simplified Chinese characters, such as Chinese Breeze and the series by the Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP). However, I have not found any graded readers that use traditional Chinese characters. (I have found basal readers for Chinese/Taiwanese schoolchildren, but that is not the same thing.)

Can anybody suggest graded readers written in traditional Chinese characters?

Answer 1

As it turns out, the graded readers from Mandarin Companion have been converted to traditional characters.

• 安末 / Emma (300 unique characters);
• 卷发公司的案子 / Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Curly Haired Company (300 unique characters);
• 盲人国 (300 unique characters);
• 猴爪 / http://mandarincompanion.com/products/the-monkeys-paw/ (300 unique characters);
• 王子和穷孩子 / The Prince and the Pauper (300 unique characters);
• 秘密花园 / The Secret Garden (300 unique characters);
• 六十年的梦 / The Sixty-Year Dream (300 unique characters);
• 美好的前途（上） / Great Expectations: Part 1 (450 unique characters);
• 美好的前途（下） / Great Expectations: Part 2 (450 unique characters);
• 地心游记 / Journey to the Center of the Earth (450 unique characters).

Another set of graded readers is the Happy Reader's Series published by Pan Asia Publishing. It contains titles such as 猴小子穿鞋子 / Shoes for Monkey Young, 美麗的圖畫 / A Beautiful Picture and 我們看見恐龍了 / We Have Seen a Dinosaur! The books contain traditional Chinese characters, an English translation and pinyin Unfortunately, these books are aimed at children, not adults.