This is a Sinhala retelling of The Little Mermaid, issued as one title in a series of fairy tale books made for young children in Sri Lanka. The text is entirely in Sinhala — there is no English in it — so the reader or the adult reading aloud will need the language.
The adaptation is written in simple Sinhala, pitched at children who are beginning to read or still being read to. It is printed on glossy paper and illustrated in colour throughout.
Hiruni Fernando is credited as the author of the retelling. The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo, a long-established Sri Lankan house whose list covers schoolbooks and children's titles in Sinhala and English.
For families abroad raising children in Sinhala, books of this kind do a particular job: a story the child may already know in English, set out in Sinhala words short enough to follow, with pictures carrying the sense when the vocabulary runs ahead. Buyers who do not read Sinhala should note that nothing in the book is bilingual.
- Author: Hiruni Fernando
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552131257
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