This is a volume in the Great Stories series published by M. D. Gunasena, and it carries the Sinhala title Ape Jathika Weerayo — Our National Heroes. It gathers the life stories of a group of figures who devoted themselves to the advancement of Sri Lanka.
The lives covered are those of the Tibetan-born monk Ven. S. Mahinda, Anagarika Dharmapala, D. B. Jayatilaka, C. W. W. Kannangara, D. S. Senanayake and Arthur V. Dias. Each is presented as a biographical account of the person's path through life, written by Thanuja Krishil Nirmalee.
The book is written in Sinhala throughout, with no English text, so it will suit a reader or a household that reads the language. It is a children's title, shaped for a young reader and printed in colour, and it presents these lives as examples of determination, perseverance and self-belief — the kind of material a parent or teacher might reach for when encouraging a child to take their own abilities seriously.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller issuing titles in Sinhala and English, including educational and children's books. The Great Stories series groups short biographical collections of this sort under a single banner, and this is one of its titles.
For families abroad raising children in Sinhala, or for anyone building a home library of Sri Lankan children's books, it offers an introduction to national figures whose names recur throughout the island's modern history — the monk and poet, the Buddhist revivalist, the statesmen, the architect of free education, and the planter remembered for his tree-planting work.
- Author: Thanuja Krishil Nirmalee
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552133596
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