[anrakushi]

i have the tuttle books with 250 kanji in each and they are pretty good, they give compounds that start off easy and get more difficult as you learn more. they show stroke order and sometimes some extra information about the characters origin etc. I didn't use them after about the first 30 or so characters just because i went ahead with my method i stated earlier.. stroke order is really dead easy to pick up.. learn the radicals and their stroke order and you pretty much will know the stroke order for every character out there.