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Quamrul Hasan has earned fame at home and abroad for his masterly paintings with powerful stroke of brush. Faiz Ahmed is renowned for his writings for children. The two masestro of different genre has joined hands to create a book without parallel, rhymes written by Faiz Ahmed following Quamrul Hasan's work at his studio. Usually in a children's book illustration follow the writing, but in this extraordinary book that order has been reversed. National Professor Kabir Chowdhury translated the book into English and enabled the wider readership to share the joy of wonderful creation by the painter and the author.

ছোটদের জন্য মজার মজার অনেক করিতা লিখেছেন ফয়েজ আহমদ আর ছোটদের সঙ্গে বিশ্বের সাহিত্যের পরিচয় করিয়ে দিতে কতরকম অনুবাদের কাজই না করেছেন জাতীয় অধ্যাপক কবীর চৌধুরী। এক সময় তাঁরা উভয়ে মিলে তৈরি করলেন এক বই, দুই মলাটের মধ্যে বাংলা ও ইংরেজিতে নির্বাচিত ছড়া সঙ্কলন। আর ঝলমলে রঙে এমনি বই সাজিয়েছিলেন দক্ষ শিল্পী সৈয়দ এনায়েত হোসেন, ত্রয়ী প্রতিভার সম্মিলনে প্রকাশিত এই বইয়ে ছোটদের জন্য একই সঙ্গে মিলবে আনন্দ ও শিক্ষা। Faiz Ahmad has written many memorable poems for children and National Professor Kabir Chowdhury has worked relentlessly translate classics of world literature for young readers. Both have joined together to bring out this selection of Faiz Ahmad's poems in Bangla and its English renderation. There- after Syed Enayel Hussain made it presistibly attractive for the child by his fine work of brush and color.

Tunu is a young girl growing up in a world of fantasy and reality, in the way only a girl of her age can be. She is a favourite character of our juvenile literature. Ekhlas Uddin Ahmed has written many tales of Tunu depicting the world of children and Happy Garden is one of those, brilliantly translated by Syed Manzoorul Islam, Professor of English of Dhaka University and himself an author of repute.