Barbara,

It's been my experience that children's books tend to be more difficult than most people realize.  Check with your local university at their foreign language department and see what types of materials they may suggest.  I don't have them immediately available, but an example is that
in Russian one is able to find readers -- they have progressive vocabularies and the chapters begin relatively easy, moving more towards advanced grammar and vocabulary.  Children's books are usually meant to be read by native speakers, and tend to be quite difficult.

Most European languages have many cognates that will help in getting the gist of the article, but if you're looking at Finnish or Hungarian, there may be some more difficulties there.

By the way, I LOVE Asterix!  Honestly, that may be a good choice to go -- it's different than children's literature -- very helpful if you bought the target language and then the English language texts at the same time.

Hope this helps.
David

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