A colouring book for children in the primary grades, published as part of a series that shares a single title. The individual books are told apart by the colour of the cover rather than by a number or a volume name, and this is the red one.
Inside, children colour shapes, everyday objects, animals and fruit. Each picture carries the name of the thing drawn, printed in English, so that the colouring and the word are learned together. That pairing is the whole method of the series: a child works through the pictures with crayons or pencils and picks up simple English vocabulary along the way.
It is made for the youngest school-age readers — the sort of book a parent or a teacher puts in front of a child who is just beginning to recognise English words, and who will sit happily with a picture to fill in. Because the pictures draw on familiar categories, the vocabulary stays close to what a small child already knows by sight in Sinhala or Tamil, and attaches an English name to it.
The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo, a house long associated with schoolbooks and children's titles in Sri Lanka. Families buying abroad may find the series useful for keeping early English and a little Sri Lankan classroom material in a child's hands, and the books work equally well as a quiet activity that happens to teach something.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552126482
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