One of Sybil Wettasinghe's stories, issued as part of M. D. Gunasena's Read & Colour series for children. The text is in English, and the line illustrations are left open for the reader to fill in, so the story is read and coloured at the same time.
The series brings together stories by Wettasinghe that are already well known in Sri Lanka and presents them in a form intended to encourage children's creativity and imagination alongside the reading. Here the story is Pumpkin Strips. A child works through it page by page, colouring as the story goes, which turns a reading session into something slower and more hands-on than a picture book usually allows.
Sybil Wettasinghe was a Sri Lankan author and illustrator of children's books, writing in Sinhala and English, and her drawings are closely associated with her storytelling. Children's publishing in Sri Lanka has carried her work for generations of young readers.
Suited to children who are reading simple English on their own or with an adult nearby, and to households buying for a child overseas who is being introduced to Sri Lankan stories. Parents, grandparents and teachers looking for something a child can keep and return to will find it a straightforward choice. Coloured pencils or crayons are the only thing needed alongside it.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
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