A picture book for young children about the cat, written in English by W. Maria and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. It belongs to a series of animal books for early readers, each one given over to a single creature.
The approach is simple: the characteristics that make a cat a cat, set out plainly and in language pitched at children meeting these facts for the first time. Colour illustrations run through the book, drawn to show those same characteristics rather than to decorate the page.
Books of this kind do a particular job in a child's reading life. They sit between the picture book read aloud at bedtime and the school reader, offering real information in small quantities, with pictures carrying as much of the explanation as the sentences do. A child who already knows cats from the street or the household gets a vocabulary for what they have been watching.
M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller, with a substantial list of educational and children's titles in Sinhala and English. This one is in English throughout, which makes it useful in Sri Lankan homes and classrooms where English reading is being built up alongside first-language work, and equally straightforward for readers abroad.
Suitable for parents and teachers assembling a shelf of early non-fiction, and for anyone collecting the series animal by animal.
- Author: W. Maria
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132179
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