Frog Under a Coconut Shell values Nothing is quite as it

Nothing is quite as it seems

Written and Illustrated by Chris Riddell

and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too

There are so many things to see

Barkus is generous

Frog Under a Coconut Shell values Nothing is quite as itWritten 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