Fru Fools Greedy Hoo!

Hoo, the greedy witch, was in trouble. She loved fly soup, but she was going blind and this made her a bad hunter of flies. But nothing could stop a nasty, greedy witch. She knew frogs loved flies too, so she waited until they lashed their tongues at flies. And just as they were about to zap them, Hoo swooped low and snatched all the flies. Fru, the cleverest of the frogs comes up with a plan to fool the greedy witch. Will he succeed or will all the frogs be denied their favourite food forever?

Jayakaran started writing stories and poems for young adults about 20 years ago. He enjoyed writing young adult stories, but could not muster enough courage to do his favorite – the picture book. But this changed after his first few story-telling events at bookstores in Kuala Lumpur. Penguin Books engaged him for story-telling events during September (Roald Dahl month) after their regular storyteller fell ill. The development of Fru, however, started taking shape after he started telling made-up stories on frogs to his oldest god-grandson, Rayyan Rizqin Hafiz.