A short story book for children, in English, from Sybil Wettasinghe — one of a recent series of children's titles she wrote for M. D. Gunasena. It is set in large type across a small number of pages, the shape a book takes when it is meant for a child who has recently begun reading alone and still wants the sentence to sit clearly on the page.
Colour paintings run through it, pitched at young readers rather than at adults looking over their shoulders. The publisher places it with primary school children: old enough to follow a story from beginning to end in one sitting, young enough that the pictures carry as much of it as the words do.
Sybil Wettasinghe is a Sri Lankan writer and illustrator of children's books, and her work is familiar to generations of readers on the island in both Sinhala and English. This English edition suits families abroad who want Sri Lankan children's writing on the shelf at home, teachers building a class library, and anyone buying a first reader as a gift.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552130670
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