A picture book for very young children, built around a single piece of paper engineering: every page is made to fold, so that opened out it gives the child one set of information and folded back it gives another. The subject is the people who help us in daily life — community helpers — and what the book offers is basic, first-level knowledge about them.
The folding is not decoration. It makes the page into something the child does rather than simply looks at, and the publisher points to that activity element as the reason small children take to these books. The series it belongs to was made with the same idea in mind throughout.
The publisher describes the text as carrying Sinhala, Tamil and English together, so a child meets the same handful of words and ideas in all three languages on the same page. That makes it useful for a parent or teacher who wants early vocabulary to arrive in more than one language at once, without needing separate books.
It is credited to Dolphine Press and published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English. The intended reader is a pre-school child, most likely with an adult alongside to read the words aloud and work the flaps.
- Author: Dolphine Press
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala-English
- ISBN: 9789552128639
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