Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction Can one tiny girl change

Can one tiny girl change a very big school

the chance to explore and learn

Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones is waving goodbye to her weeping parents and starting her first day at boarding school

from the first blossoms of spring through to the stark winter wonderland in December

Frog Under a Coconut Shell realistic fiction Can one tiny girl changeWritten 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