A small kitchen mishap carries the whole story. Someone takes a fancy to pittu and sets about making it, but a slip right at the end means that what finally comes out is not pittu at all — it is thalapa.
Sybil Wettasinghe is one of the names Sinhala-reading households associate with children's books; she wrote and illustrated stories drawn from village life and ordinary domestic moments, told simply enough for a child to follow and with enough humour to be read aloud more than once. This title sits in that vein, turning a familiar food and a familiar sort of accident into a tale with a punchline.
An important practical point for buyers outside Sri Lanka: the text is in Sinhala throughout, with no English translation alongside it. It suits households raising children with Sinhala, Sinhala language learners who want simple narrative reading, and collectors of Wettasinghe's work. The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co. of Colombo, a long-established Sinhala and English list.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552124891
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