Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction The last thing she needs

The last thing she needs now is an intense boyfriend

the chance to explore and learn

Can one tiny girl change a very big school

sounds and history of Darbar Sahib

Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction The last thing she needsWritten 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