This is The Ugly Duckling retold in Sinhala for young children — one title in a series of fairy tale books produced for Sri Lankan readers by M. D. Gunasena & Co. of Colombo. Hiruni Fernando's retelling keeps the familiar story of the odd duckling who grows into something else entirely, in plain, simple Sinhala.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, so it is intended for households where a child is read to in Sinhala or is beginning to read it independently. International buyers should order it on that basis: there is no English retelling alongside.
The book is printed on gloss paper with colour illustrations on the page, in the format publishers use for picture books meant to be handled by small hands. The language has been deliberately kept straightforward rather than literary, which makes it usable for early readers as well as for reading aloud.
It suits Sri Lankan families abroad looking for Sinhala-language story books for children, and anyone building a small shelf of Sinhala reading material for a child who is learning the script. As part of a wider series of fairy tales from the same publisher, it sits alongside other well-known stories given the same simple treatment.
- Author: Hiruni Fernando
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552131011
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