A Sinhala-language picture book for young readers, from a series of newer children's stories by Sybil Wettasinghe. The text is set in large type across a short extent, and the pages carry colour illustrations throughout. The publisher places it with children in the primary grades — readers working through short sentences on their own, or listening while someone else reads aloud.
Sybil Wettasinghe was a Sri Lankan writer and illustrator of books for children, working in Sinhala. Her picture books have been read by generations of Sri Lankan children, and the drawings are as much a part of the storytelling as the words.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that this book is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text and no parallel translation, so it will suit households where Sinhala is read, families keeping the language alive abroad, teachers of Sinhala to young children, and collectors of Wettasinghe's work. For a child learning to read Sinhala, the large type and the picture-led pages are the point of the format.
Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Sri Lankan house publishing in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552126048
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