A Sinhala picture book for children by Sybil Wettasinghe, who both wrote and illustrated it. The text is entirely in Sinhala — there is no English translation within the book — so it suits readers and families who read the language, or who are keeping it up with children abroad. The title means, roughly, "A Strange Sound".
Wettasinghe was a children's author and illustrator of long standing in Sri Lanka, known for work in which the drawing carries as much of the storytelling as the words. That is the case here: the book is illustrated throughout, and the publisher describes the pictures as drawn with children's attention and their way of seeing in mind, rather than as decoration added after the fact.
It is issued by M. D. Gunasena & Co., an established Sri Lankan publishing house that produces books in Sinhala and English. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, this is a straightforward way to add a Sinhala-language children's title by one of the island's well-loved author-illustrators to a home shelf, a classroom, or a collection of Sri Lankan children's literature.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552124143
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