A collection of Sinhala folk verse gathered for young readers. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit buyers who read the language or who are teaching it at home.
The premise P.H. Ranasinghe works from is that folk verse came from ordinary people rather than from scholars. These are not the compositions of learned men; they grew out of working life — the verses sung during various kinds of labour, those attached to particular occasions and events, and those that belong to folk games. That is the material assembled here, and the selection is pitched at children in the primary classes, covering the folk poems they are expected to know.
For families abroad raising children in Sinhala, or for teachers running supplementary language classes, it offers verse already sorted for that age group in one volume rather than scattered across textbooks and memory. Readers who simply want the traditional songs in print will find them here too.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Colombo house with a long record in Sinhala educational publishing.
- Author: P.H. Ranasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552112157
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