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'Kanchil, a cunning little mouse deer, outsmarts the tigers who visit the island of Borneo, a part of Indonesia, to demand food. They are so frightened by what they are told that they never return. Even today people do not often see a tiger on the island of Borneo' (source: contents page).
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This work is told first in English and then in Bahasa Indonesian.
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it is a re-telling of a traditional Indonesian story, and contains text in (Bahasa) Indonesian.
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- Borneo, Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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