A folk tale for children from Sybil Wettasinghe, the Sri Lankan writer and illustrator whose picture books are a fixture of Sinhala childhood reading. The text is in Sinhala throughout — worth knowing before ordering if the book is intended for a reader who does not have the language.
The story turns on an assembly of birds and the question of who should rule them. In the passage the publisher quotes, the birds reach their verdict in unison: a candidate who shows no happiness even on being crowned would surely make a dangerous, nasty king. They resolve to appoint another in his place.
It is the kind of tale that works aloud, with a chorus of birds agreeing and re-agreeing, and a simple moral argument a young listener can follow and dispute. Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a house with a long history of Sinhala-language publishing for children.
Suitable for Sinhala-reading families abroad, for parents reading to children in the language, and for collectors of Wettasinghe's work.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552130717
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