A children's book by Sybil Wettasinghe, one of Sri Lanka's best-loved writers and illustrators for young readers. Her picture books, written and drawn in a style drawn from village life and folk storytelling, have been read by generations of Sri Lankan children at home and in school, and her illustrations are recognisable long before the cover is turned over.
This edition is in English, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-established Sri Lankan house that keeps much of Wettasinghe's work in print in both Sinhala and English. For readers outside Sri Lanka, that matters: these are books produced for Sri Lankan children rather than adapted for an export market, and the English carries the cadence of the original.
Suitable for reading aloud to younger children and for newly independent readers working through a story on their own. It will also interest adults who grew up with Wettasinghe's books and want them for their own children, teachers building a classroom shelf of Sri Lankan writing, and collectors of South Asian children's literature and illustration.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552130793
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