Putra And His Silver Keris

Putra is a fisherman's son. He lives with his parents by the banks of a powerful river. Life is good, but one day, the River Goddess takes Putra's mother into her watery world. Putra enters this underwater world to save his mother. Armed with only a Malay dagger known as a keris, Putra must navigate this strange world to search for his mother. In this children's book (for ages 8-12), Malaysian author Chang Shih Yen blends original story with beasts from Southeast Asian mythology.