A children's book in Sinhala by Sybil Wettasinghe, the Sri Lankan author and illustrator whose picture books have been read by generations of children on the island. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it suits readers of the language — children reading for themselves, or parents and grandparents reading aloud to younger ones.
Wettasinghe both wrote and drew, and the pages here are coloured in the manner her publisher describes as pitched to a child's eye. That pairing of her own words with her own pictures is what distinguishes her work: the illustration is not decoration added later but part of how the story is told.
Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-established Sri Lankan house publishing in Sinhala and English. For families abroad keeping Sinhala alive at home, her books remain a natural starting point, and this one belongs on that shelf.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552119552
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