Introducing

Malaysian Stories for Kids

By Uncle Bugs

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Introduction
By nature Uncle Bugs loves children. Like any other caring father he reads bedtime stories to his
2 daughters. He has been doing that for a few years, but soon he realized that he has been
reading too much western fairy tales. He thought it would be also nice to give them some variety
of flavors including local Malaysian tales.
It is also Uncle Bugs wished to let his daughters learn about the local animals and culture this
country is blessed with. He went seeking for this kind of books. But to his dismay he couldnt find
any tales other than the classic Sang Kancil. Stores after stores he seek but in no avail.

Out of the needs for such material, Uncle Bugs decided to create his own books. Thus giving birth
to this set of fairy tales. He has written 6 stories. Even though the title are in Malay but the stories
is written in English. The names of the characters are all Malaysian.

Besides the ups and down of the adventures in the stories, Uncle Bugs also incorporated the
doctrine of good morals so that his daughters will learn vital good values at that tender age.
In most of the stories, Uncle Bugs would put his daughters as the heroin. And obviously these
books have became their favorites. The demand is so high that they wanted him to read for them
every night. Nights after nights Uncle Bugs would read the same stories over and over again to
the amusement and entertainment of his 2 daughters.
Uncle Bugs hope children in Malaysia would learn about the Malaysian culture, heritage,
animals, jungles and the way we lived our lives in Malaysia through these stories
The six titles that Uncle Bugs has written are:1

Pokok Daun Menari

Crocodile Bujang Jahat

Feisty Tea Pot

Dayang & Her Dargon

Robot Boleh

The Roti Canai Story

Uncle Bugs is seeking publisher or sponsor to print these books. He also need a graphic artist to
do the illustration. He also have ideas to turn these stories into TV game shows. He can be
contacted at bugstan@gmail.com or Facebook/bugstan
Author,
Uncle Bugs
August 2016

About the Story

Crocodile Bujang Jahat

This story tells about a bad crocodile that lives in the river of Sarawak. He terrorizes the animals
there. Many smaller animals fled their home and had suffered. Hang Garang (a Tiger) was the
king of the jungle and was hopeless and not sure what to do. Then came along a tiny ant, Lt
Adnan who wants to help. The king at first laughed at what a small ant could possibly do when
large animal couldnt.
When Lt Adnan was informed about the problems where the entire community in the forest was
badly treated by the bad crocodiles, they teamed up with other insects such as the spiders,
scorpions, mosquitoes, dragon flies and took the crocodiles to war. With a creative and smart war
strategy, the insect and other animals beat the crocodiles. They won and peace prevailed in the
Sarawak River again.
Here the children also learn about the many type of animals who lived in the Sarawak jungle. And
learned about how fortunate we are to have this thick rain forest. The moral of the story in this
tale is that even though there is a big bad bully out there. But if we could co-operate amongst
ourselves, we can fight for peace. It teaches children that it is of no use to be a big bully at all.
Names of character used are all Malaysian. The hero, Lt Adnan is a legendary hero in the
Malaysian arm force.

About the story of

Pokok Daun Menari
The title of this story Pokok Daun Menari means Dancing Leave Tree. This story relates to the life
of the animals in the jungle in Taman Negara (Malaysian Nation Park). The tree is about a
hundred years old. It has many animals living within the tree and every time the animals play and
run around the tree. The tree felt very happy and shake his leaves. Thus the name, Pokok Daun
Menari.
It tells of a clever squirrel who was able to seek help from his insect friends to ward off two wood
cutters who was about to cut the tree down. It shows how even little insect as small as the ants
could help and fight against large men with axe and saw. The insect are creative and smart
The author hopes that this story will lead our children to learn more about the natural rain forest
and the animals that lives in the National Park. Theyll also get a glimpse about the lives in the
jungle. This story also hope to teach our children to preserve the trees in the jungle so many
animals and insect will continue to have a home.

About the story of

Dayang and Her Dragon

This fairy tale tells

about the lives in the
Kingdom of Bukit
Naga. It tells about the
mysterious animals
that went missing
without a trace. King
Nabil has two lovely
Princesses.
One day while playing
the Princesses
stumbled across some
stones that resembled
the lost animals in a cave. The story relates about a clever Princess name Amelia. She and her
animals from the palace fought the bats, who were responsible to turn the animals into stones.
Princess Amelia won the battle and soon the Kingdom lived in peace and harmony again. In this
story the author hope to teach children that while we may encounter some problem and troubles
in our daily life, we can be overcome them if we use our creative mind to plan effective strategy.
We should also seek help from friends and family members in time of trouble. This story also
promote team work. A good relationship with our friends is important when we are trying to
overcome difficulties.
This story is rich with Malaysian culture heritage. Here we learned of how the olden days Malay
Kingdom lives.

About the story of

Feisty Tea Pot
Tea pot is an interesting tales about the lives in the open sea. This story was created after the
author made a trip to his home town Pulau Ketam with some of his friends.
In this story, the author hopes to teach children about the many type of fishes we have in the sea.
In the beginning of the story the author portrayed the shark as a bad animal in the sea. The story
started with 4 fishes got caught by a fisherman, where he later brought them home as pets for his
2 daughters.
The 4 fishes, a gold fish, jelly fish, turtle and sea horse could not take the confined life of living in
an aquarium. They were sick worried about their children (baby fishes) in the sea. Who is going to
take care of them? Who is going to feed them? These are the major questions they asked
themselves over and over again in the aquarium tank.
Apparently a tea pot was there to help these 4 fishes. After watching and hearing the
conversation of the 4 fishes in the aquarium, the tea pot soon was able to inform the
predicaments to the fishermans daughters. Upon learning
of what is going on in the aquarium, the 2 girls then
decided to release the 4 fishes into the sea again. After
understanding that the root cause of the problem in the
open sea is the doing of the bad sharks. If the shakes are
not killed for their fins, they can live happily without bullying
other fishes. So the 2 girls told their father not to kill shark
anymore. And soon peace prevailed again. Fishermen in
Pulau Ketam have stopped killing sharks. They even
discourage other people not to eat shark fin.
The moral of the story is to teach our children to respect all
animals, even Sharks. The story also teaches our children
not to eat shark fins. Sharks are like any other animals. They will not harm us if we do not
threaten their lives.

About the story of

Robot Boleh
Robot Boleh is a humanoid robot invented by Amandas father. In the beginning the Robot was a
darling to Amanda and her friends in school. But it was just a robot and Amanda wished very hard
for her robot to have a human mind. One fine day a fairy appeared and full filled her wish. But
there was a condition attached. That is Amanda must be responsible to see that Robot Boleh
behaves himself or else the fairy will take it back.
However later part in the story it tells of how the robot was friendly but soon it turned bad when
the robot took advantage of his abilities. Robot Boleh became greedy, arrogant and not friendly at
all. Amanda then found her life become harder and harder when all her friends dislike her robot.
One day her schools library caught fire, Amanda with her quick thinking mind uses a remote
controller to instruct the robot to help and save 2 of her school mates. With that, Amanda now
controls her robot whenever the robot misbehaved. The Robot Boleh then turned on a new leaf
and became kind again.
The moral in this story in to teach children
not to be greedy, do not laugh at others,
do not be arrogant and avoid bad
behavior. Nobody loves you if you have a
bad attitude. It also makes life harder for
those around you.

About The Roti Canai Story.

This story tells about a poor family who lived in Tanjong Malim, Malaysia. They run a small bread
shop and business was bad. But the owners children prayed very hard and soon a fairy
appeared and left 2 Roti Canai in their shop.
The 2 Roti Canai were duty bound to help this family and so they did. They made some bread
that tasted very nice. Customer begun to flocked in and things turned around very quickly. The
story also have a funny scene where a cat in that shop chased the 2 Roti Canais and created a
lot of difficulties for them. Somehow, with a creative thinking mind, the Roti Canai managed to
trap the cat in a basket.
Mr. Ramesh, the owner of the shop and his wife later found out that it was the 2 little Roti Canai
who were responsible to make those delicious breads. At first the 2 Roti Canai was afraid of
human but soon after, they quickly became friends to the owner and his family. Together, they
clean up the shop and business became even better.
The story went on to have a happy ending where Rameshs met a rich investor and they expand
their business rapidly. His family is now free from financial burden and was able to lead a normal
life.
This story dissipates rich Malaysian local culture and life style. It tells about the normal things we
do in Malaysia and at the same time, it teaches children about family values. They need to stay
united and do their best to support each other in a family. It also teaches that we should always
keep our shop and home clean all the time.
While there is a lot of moral value, this story also has a few funny scenes and it will surely bring
laughter to the child who reads them