Pleco’s book is harder compared to Mandarin Companion, it introducing higher a few level vocabs. with a special highlight in the book. It seems to want to prepare the reader to a higher level at the same time.

They both have the same amount of image and content quality.

The content in Pleco focus at history story such as Cáo Cao from Romance of The Three Kingdoms or Yè Xiàn the Chinese Cinderella while Mandarin Companion focus at nowaday normal life.

I’m going to look at the books available in Pleco next! How did you find them compared to The Misadventure of 周海生?

This is the first entire Chinese book I ever read and it hooks me to read more. I end up by reading more two beginner (150 words) books and another 18 books wait for me in Pleco.

I plan to read all of 20 Pleco’s beginner books before moving up to 300 words book.

Pleco book is also good to read, the format of the book quite the same plus the easy to access the definition of each word because the book stays in Pleco book.

Another one point for Pleco; it can add new vocab. that just appear in the book in the flash card system of Pleco.