Japanese know a good book to self teach japanese?

im currently looking for a good book that will help me self teach my self japanese.

So far i have started with "let's learn hiragana" -and- "Let's learn katakana" by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura. Both books are excellent (IMO) ... I have also made my self some charts to help me practice outside of the book.

If anyone wants to check it out, get it here:
http://pupp.edgeemu.com/Hiragana%20%20Practice%20Sheet%20(a).doc

http://pupp.edgeemu.com/Hiragana%20%20Practice%20Sheet%20(i).doc

http://pupp.edgeemu.com/Hiragana%20%20Practice%20Sheet%20(e).doc

http://pupp.edgeemu.com/Hiragana%20%20Practice%20Sheet%20(o).doc

http://pupp.edgeemu.com/Hiragana%20%20Practice%20Sheet%20(u).doc

if you know a way to make it better, let me know I plan to do this with the whole hiragana set.

I wonder if im on the right track...

---edit---
should this be moved over to Languages & Culture ?

 

A book that I used many years ago was Japanese For Busy People: Kana version. It is a very good start.

 

well, if you want to learn like kanji, you could get a chibi maruko book thing for like, 2nd graders or something like that. i have one.

(o^-^o) yaka.