A Sinhala retelling of Sleeping Beauty, prepared for young children and published as part of a series of fairy tale books for Sri Lankan readers. Priyangwada Perera has written the text in simple Sinhala, and the book is illustrated in colour and printed on glossy paper.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that the text is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English version of the story within the book, so it suits a household where an adult reads Sinhala aloud, or a child who is learning to read in the language. Families abroad often use picture books of this kind to keep a first language alive at home, and a story already familiar in English makes that easier: a child who knows how the tale goes can follow the Sinhala with less help.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller producing titles in Sinhala and English, including schoolbooks and children's reading. This title sits in their children's list, alongside the other fairy tales issued in the same series.
- Author: Priyangwada Perera
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552130960
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