A Sinhala children's book by Sybil Wettasinghe, who both wrote and illustrated her work. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it suits readers and families who read the language, or those building a Sinhala-language library for children abroad.
Wettasinghe is a children's author and illustrator of long standing in Sri Lanka, and the pictures here are as much the point as the words. The publisher describes the illustrations as drawn with children's attention and children's psychology in mind — pictures made to hold a young reader, not simply to decorate the page.
It is published by M. D. Gunasena & Co., the Colombo house that has long issued Sinhala-language books for schools and general readers.
For parents outside Sri Lanka raising children in Sinhala, books of this kind are not easy to come by locally, and Wettasinghe's name is one most Sri Lankan households recognise from their own childhoods. Read aloud, it works for children still too young to manage the script themselves; read alone, for those beginning to.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552124297
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