I'm a beginner, but I jumped into this anyway. Great help for my style of learning.

An excellent graded reader for students of Spanish who have already fulfilled the requirements for A1 level. I personally found the second part, about Mexican history, to be extremely interesting as I am a student of history at university level and this section enabled me to get familiar with the outlines of the history of a nation that I was not very familiar with.

This book is good for beginners. It starts with a basic story that's very easy to read with questions at the end of each chapter. It progresses to get more and more challenging. There are three sections, the first one is a simple story about two students, the second section was about the history of Mexico, and the third section was a shortened version of a famous piece of mexican literature. I found this book very interesting at first but as it went on, I lost interest. The history of Mexico section was pretty interesting.

This book gave me the confidence to continue to learn Spanish. Yo leo los cuentos mucho tiempos. Yo estoy muy nerviosa sobre appranendo español. La idioma es muy difícil pero este libro ayuda mucho.

I highly recommend for anyone who is looking for a normal, easy to read Spanish reader.

I loved reading the Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students. The most challenging section of this book for me, (which was also the most enjoyable), was the “Segunda parte: Historia de México.” This was a fun book to read. I highly recommend it!!!

Look at me, being all studious, working on my es-pan-yole in the summer.

Spanish will be my third language and this time I'm teaching myself. This is a good book to have as one of many tools in your arsenal. Positives: the book is a nice alternatively to a typical grammar book. It presents a lot of good, useful vocabulary that continues throughout. I've actually used some of the vocabulary I learned in this book. It definitely progresses from easy, present tense in Part I to more difficult past tense in Part II and additional tense usage in Part III. I found Part II on the history of Mexico most interesting and Part II the literature was descent as well. I like that there are questions after each passage with answers in the back. These exercises gave me an opportunity to write and reinforce the vocabulary I was learning. Negatives: Part I content is a bit remedial, but you have to start somewhere so kind of as expected. As for the Q&A, I found some mistakes throughout the book and sometimes there were two-part questions, but only one answer. The verb tenses get more difficult as you advance your way through the book, which I liked, but I wish there was some kind of explanation...perhaps I am asking for too much. In any event, I would definitely look for a similar book and this book has inspired me to check out the literature in Part III and continue to learn through reading!

Probably would have been better as part of a class.

I've been learning Spanish via Duolingo and Pimsleur for the last three months and was looking for an engaging text that would give me longer chunks to read. (For reference Unit 43 in Duo and 2.12 in Pimsleur.) There are three parts. The first is about two friends. There is no plot. You just go through their daily life. It's in the present tense and is unbelievably boring. I didn't know all the vocabulary, but most of the words I didn't know were either in the marginal notes or the glossary. The second part was a history of Mexico. If I learned any of this in school besides the names Montezuma (or more correctly Moctezuma) Cortez. I tend to associate the latter with Keats who got the wrong man:
"Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
The real Cortez was pretty much a jerk. But back to the book.

This section of the book was at about my level. Past tense and a lot of repetition of words for killing and destruction.

The final section of the book had more tenses, most easy enough to figure out even if I haven't officially learned them yet. It has an abridged version of the famous picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes. It's so abridged that pretty much all of the fun has been removed. You'd have to try hard to make something so boring.

I did not do most of the exercises as I don't have anyone to check my work. Another quibble is that not all the words are in the glossary.

I'm going to go back to reading children's books which are at least designed to make you want to be engaging.

This book wasn't really exciting in any way, but it served its purpose as a graded reader well and convinced me that my Spanish is way better than it really is (it's not that amazing).

One of the best spanish readers. Starts off simple and gets more challenging. Part of the book goes into the history of Mexico which I enjoyed the most.