A Sinhala children's book by Sybil Wettasinghe, written and illustrated by her and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The entire text is in Sinhala, with no English translation alongside it, so a reader outside Sri Lanka will want either Sinhala at home or a child learning the language.
Wettasinghe worked as both a writer of children's stories and an artist, and her books carry her own drawings rather than another illustrator's. This one is illustrated throughout, the pictures made to hold a child's attention and pitched at how young children actually look at a page.
It suits families keeping Sinhala alive in a household abroad, teachers and libraries building a Sinhala-language shelf for younger readers, and collectors following Wettasinghe's work. Children who cannot yet read the script will still follow the drawings while an adult reads aloud — which is how most of her books tend to be met first.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552124280
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