A picture book for young children, part of a series set in large letter type by Sybil Wettasinghe, the Sri Lankan author and illustrator who spent a working life making books for children.
Books of this kind are made for the stage when a child is beginning to recognise letters and words on the page rather than only listening to them. The oversized text gives a new reader something to follow with a finger, and a parent or teacher reading aloud something to point at. It is a format meant for sharing — short enough to finish in a sitting, and to go back to.
The text here is in English, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a house with a long association with Sri Lankan schoolbooks and children's titles.
Of interest to families raising children outside Sri Lanka who want their early reading to come from home, to teachers and school libraries building a shelf of Sri Lankan children's writing, and to readers who grew up with Wettasinghe's drawings and are now buying for the next generation.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552125645
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