THE WEDDING FEAST

Wedding Fest ( Magul Kama )by cumaratunga munidasa has been extremely popular as a supplementary reader amoung the young children for decades. the author , with a clear perspective of the minds of the young readers , has created an exciting story for them .

Children's literature can be considered as afine combination of fact and fiction , in fact more fiction than fact . At a time when there is a dearth of english books for our children , English translations of interesting books by well-known talented authors of the calibre of Cumarartunga Munidasa certainly would be of great help .

Translation of such valuable children's story books should be of immense help to our young readers to create literary interest in them, improve their knowledge in English and also develop reading habits which are feared to be on the wane .