A Sinhala-language pop-up picture book for young children, retelling the fairy tale of the ugly duckling. It belongs to a series of fairy tales issued by M. D. Gunasena in the same format, adapted here by Niranjan Chaminda Karunathilake.
The text is set in simple Sinhala, pitched at children who are beginning to read or who are being read to. The illustrations are in colour, the binding is hard-covered, and the pages are built so that elements rise from the spread as the book is opened — the pop-up construction is the point of the series rather than an extra.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that the book is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text alongside it. For Sinhala-speaking families abroad, it is the kind of book that works for a child who is learning to read the script at home; for anyone without the language, the appeal would rest on the pictures and the paper engineering alone.
- Author: Niranjan Chaminda Karunathilake
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552132407
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