Frog Under a Coconut Shell values Meet Bugs: smart

Meet Bugs:  smart

Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times

There is excitement in the air with the news of Miss Reedy and Mr Plumpton’s engagement and fast-approaching wedding

Clementine Rose and her family are off to the beach while the roof at Penberthy House is being fixed

Frog Under a Coconut Shell values Meet Bugs: smartWritten 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