A Sinhala children's story built around a familiar proverb: whatever the speaker may say, it falls to the listener to hear it with their wits about them. Sri Charles de Silva takes that idea and turns it into a tale about acting on what you have checked rather than on what you have merely overheard.
The story follows a household mistress who is swept up in a commotion that turns out to have no substance behind it. From her false alarm comes the book's point for young readers — that hearing something is not the same as knowing it, and that the sensible response to news is to ask questions before rushing about.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, with no English translation, so it suits families raising children in the language, Sinhala-medium classrooms, and readers overseas who want their children reading stories in Sinhala rather than about Sri Lanka in English. Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Colombo house whose list includes a good deal of Sinhala reading for children.
- Author: De Silva, Sri Charles
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102684
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