A picture book for schoolchildren, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. Pictures are grouped under subject headings, and the range of subjects is wide: flowers, fruits, spices, butterflies, heads of state, clothing, the national flags of various countries, and more besides.
The labelling is given in Sinhala, Tamil and English, so the same picture can be named in any of the three. The publisher records the book as a Sinhala-language title, and buyers outside Sri Lanka should expect Sinhala to be the primary language on the page, with the Tamil and English wording set alongside it. A reader with no Sinhala can still use the English captions, though the book is made first for children learning in Sinhala.
M. D. Gunasena is an established Colombo publisher with a long presence in Sri Lankan school and children's publishing, and this title sits in that part of its list — the kind of book used at home and in the early classroom for naming things and building vocabulary.
Of interest to parents and teachers in the Sri Lankan diaspora who want a Sinhala picture book for a young child, and to anyone wanting a simple trilingual word-and-picture reference from a Sri Lankan publisher.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552121975
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