A children's title from the Great Stories series, written in Sinhala by Niranjan Chaminda Karunathilake and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. International buyers should note the language before ordering: the text throughout is Sinhala, not English.
This volume gathers the life stories of six sportspeople: Muttiah Muralitharan, Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Michael Phelps, Cristiano Ronaldo and Usain Bolt. Each is told as a biography pitched at young readers, following the course of a career rather than cataloguing statistics, and the pages are printed in colour.
The series is written with an openly instructive purpose. The publisher presents these lives as examples of self-belief, of coping with setbacks and of setting high ambitions — the idea being that a child reading about how these athletes worked towards what they achieved will take something of determination and persistence from it. The telling is shaped for a young mind, and the encouragement is to trust one's own abilities.
Suitable for Sinhala-reading children at home or in a school library, and for Sri Lankan families abroad who want reading material in Sinhala that their children will actually pick up. The presence of Muralitharan alongside five international figures gives local readers a familiar starting point.
- Author: Niranjan Chaminda Karunathilake
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552133565
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