A retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for young children, written entirely in Sinhala. It belongs to a series of fairy tale books produced by M. D. Gunasena & Co. for small readers in Sri Lanka, each taking a well-known story and putting it into straightforward Sinhala prose.
The language is deliberately simple, pitched at children who are still finding their way through a page of Sinhala script, and the story is carried along by colour illustrations printed on gloss paper. Hiruni Fernando is credited as the author of this version.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that there is no English text here. The whole book — title, story and any captions — is in Sinhala, so it suits households where a parent or grandparent reads Sinhala aloud, families keeping the language alive abroad, and teachers working with beginning readers. For anyone building a small Sinhala library for a child, a familiar story told in words they already half know is an easy place to begin.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller, with a substantial list of children's titles and school books in Sinhala.
- Author: Hiruni Fernando
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552131226
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