A Sinhala retelling of The Princess and the Pea, published under the title නොනිදන කුමරිය, and issued as part of a series of fairy tale books prepared for young children in Sri Lanka. The whole text is in Sinhala — there is no English in it — so it will suit a household where a child is reading or being read to in the language.
Hans Christian Andersen's story of the visitor whose royal birth is tested overnight by a single pea beneath a stack of mattresses is told here in plain, simple Sinhala, pitched at children at the early reading stage. The retelling is by Hiruni Fernando. The book is illustrated in colour throughout and printed on glossy paper.
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 is one of several fairy tale volumes it has brought out in the same simple Sinhala format, so a family building a shelf of them may want to look at the companion titles.
Useful for Sinhala-speaking families abroad who want familiar stories in the language at home, and for teachers and parents looking for straightforward Sinhala reading material for the youngest readers.
- Author: Hiruni Fernando
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552131219
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