A collection of stories for young children, put together by Jayampathi Rajakaruna and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The stories are drawn from folk tales from around the world and retold for small readers, with the idea that advice worth carrying through life reaches a child most easily when it arrives as a good story rather than as instruction.
This is the second of a pair of volumes under the Gunasena Lama Katha name. It is written entirely in Sinhala, so buyers outside Sri Lanka should be aware that there is no English text in it — it is intended for children reading in Sinhala, or for a parent or grandparent reading aloud to them.
Books of this kind are a staple of Sinhala family libraries and of the reading children do alongside school, and they are often bought by Sri Lankan families abroad who want their children to keep up a language that has no support outside the home. If that is why you are here, this is a straightforward, readable set of retold tales from a long-standing Sinhala publishing house.
- Author: Jayampathi Rajakaruna
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552111471
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