Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction the chance to explore and

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Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction the chance to explore andWritten by Josephine Chia paperback The title of this non fiction book is from a Malay idiom, katak bawah tempurong. The frog who lives under the coconut shell thinks that the coconut shell is its entire world. It is a reference to the authors own mother, who although herself uneducated and living a parochial existence in a kampong or Malay village, believed in and struggled for a greater vision the right to educate her daughter. The book is a