Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction climb to the highest peak

climb to the highest peak of Mount Everest with Junko Tabei or tumble over Niagara Falls in a barrel with Annie Edson Taylor

The last thing she needs now is an intense boyfriend

the chance to explore and learn

Written and Illustrated by Alex Milway

Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction climb to the highest peakWritten 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