This is a Sinhala translation of a Russian children's fairy tale by Valentin Petrovich Katayev, rendered into Sinhala by Dedigama V. Rodrigo. The entire text is in Sinhala, with no English version alongside it, so it will suit readers and families who read the language.
The story turns on selflessness and on the worth of wishing well for others rather than for oneself, and it carries that idea as a plain moral lesson for children. In Russian it is regarded as a classic of children's literature, and it has been translated into a number of languages and adapted as a Soviet animated film.
Rodrigo's Sinhala version has appeared before under other publishing houses. It is issued here by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo, with the formal permission of the Russian embassy.
Likely buyers are parents and grandparents reading aloud in Sinhala, Sri Lankan families abroad keeping a child's Sinhala reading alive, and collectors of translated children's literature in Sinhala.
- Author: Dedigama V. Rodrigo
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552133107
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