Learning Japanese by stories and monologues is a good idea! You can not just practice your listening, reading and speaking, but also have fun studying.
This is a Japanese story (monologue) for beginners especially people who are in JLPT N5 level. It also includes N4 and N3 grammars and vocabularies too.

Check the hiragana subtitles and translation here!
https://online.fliphtml5.com/frskq/rciy/

https://youtu.be/tpB6bSkw1ig