A colouring book built around Sri Lankan subjects. The designs draw on the country's culture, its ancient temples, its dancers and the natural world, rendered as line work waiting for colour. The publisher presents it as something to settle the mind and ease tension — an activity book rather than a book to read through.
The patterns are intricate, and the intended audience is broad: the publisher describes it as suitable for all ages, with no particular skill assumed beyond the willingness to pick up pencils and begin. What a reader gets from it is largely what they put in, which is the point of the form.
Buyers outside Sri Lanka should note that this is a Sinhala-language publication. Any titles, captions or instructions appear in Sinhala, though a colouring book makes fewer demands on language than most, and the imagery carries the book for a reader who does not read Sinhala.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a Colombo publishing house with a long presence in Sri Lankan bookselling and publishing in Sinhala and English. It suits anyone drawn to Sri Lankan visual motifs — temple ornament, dance, landscape — who would rather work with them by hand than look at photographs of them, and it travels well as a gift.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552134142
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