Roald Dahl in Sinhala
Dayanjalee Dampalessa Wickremasinghe launched her maiden children
translation novels of Roald Dahl’s, Georg’s Marvelous Medicine as George
Ge Mayakara Osuwa and Enormous Crocodile as Yoda Kimbul Pathaya on
October 13 at 2.30 p.m. National Library and Library and Documentation
Services Colombo 7. Prior to these books she has written a book in
English poetry Horizon.
George Ge Mayakara Osuwa
  The funniest thing about this book is the dedication page. “This book
is for doctors everywhere.”
George is stuck at home alone with his mean, scary, and very
demanding grandma. He’s supposed to give her medicine at eleven o’clock.
Instead of giving her the usual medicine, he concocts a replacement
batch, hoping it will improve Grandma’s disposition. To create his
“Marvelous Medicine,” George throws in absolutely everything he can find
around the house.
Shaving soap, hair remover, dandruff cure, laundry soap, flea powder,
shoe polish, black pepper, horseradish sauce, animal pills, curry powder
deodorant spray, brown paint everything.
The medicine doesn’t make Grandma any nicer, but it DOES have a
remarkable effect on her, and on every creature they give it to.
George’s dad wants him to make another batch, but there’s a problem.
George didn’t write down the recipe. So every new batch he tries is
missing something, and has a different effect when they test it on the
farm animals.
Batch Number Four solves the Grandma problem permanently. The way it
does so makes the book’s dedication especially funny.
Yoda Kimbul Pathaya
The Enormous Croc is not as smart as he thinks he is.
He has all kinds of clever plans to catch a juicy child or two for
his lunch. But on his way to the town, he’s stupid enough to tell every
creature he meets where he is going and why. So when he tries all his
ruses to fool the children, Madakariya the Hippo and Saddantha the
elephant and Udakaranam the Monkey and the Roon Kurulla, the Bird rush
to the rescue and foil his plans before he can snatch any kids. Finally,
Saddantha winds him up and sends him rocketing off into space, where he
crashes into the sun and gets sizzled up like a sausage...
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