A Dress for Porcupine
A Dress for Porcupine
Reading level: Level 1: Pre-reader
Language: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (BE), English (AU), English (UK), English (IN), English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Portuguese, Portuguese (BR), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (US), Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type: Picturebook
Fiction/Non-fiction: Fiction
Author: Chammi Iresha
Illustrator: Chathurika Jayasooriya
Publisher: Room to Read
Theme: Friendship, Body & Identity, Animals, Birds & Insects.
Country: Sri Lanka
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 18
Licensing condition: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Blurb: There is a competition to select the best dress in the forest. Kooru Penchi the porcupine wants to win the competition and asks her friend Gethum Pencha the spider to make a beautiful dress for her. Gethum Pencha tries to make several dresses, but the dresses always rip because of Kooru Penchi's sharp spikes! Do you think Gethum Pencha will be able to make a dress for Kooru Penchi to wear and win the competition?
The following changes were made from the original:
- Replaced original text with translated strings over coloured background
- Added voice-over in each page for translated strings
- Added assisted navigation in each page
- Moved print cover and attributions page to the end of the book
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