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board book with easytofollow English and Spanish text, Beautiful illustrations highlight the story, Makes learning colors in Spanish fun for kids and adults! I thought my niece might like this, Her favorite color seems to change a lot and she just seems to like colors, in general, Lots. I love chameleons and their naturally evolved abilities, They are just so cool and I love watching documentaries on them too, I have a good memory of a beautiful but very complex picture where my husband and I were using prismacolor on our respective pictures of Siamese fighting fish and chameleons.

I love the concept here, They are any color they choose, The artwork is beautiful. It looks like Leo used sponges cut out like a chameleon with water colors, The trees and plants look great, I love the strong use of color in this book,

The Chameleon doesnt have his own color, Hes whatever color is around him, Hes looking for his own color, but eventually a leaf he is staying on will change color and fall away.
Hes sad until he meets another chameleon and they can hang out together,

I didnt read this to my nephew, I realized it would be too beginning for him when I got the book from the library, Its only my review today, Cute story about the colors of animals and a chameleon who didn't have a color of his own, Simple but cute illustrations. A sweet, simple book about colours and friendship, This and sitelinkBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See are my two favourites for teaching toddlers their colours.
The ending totally ruined this one, What a waste. Leo Lionni's A Color of His Own is a very brief picture book about making friends and being yourself, Lionni begins the book by saying that every animal has their own color, Elephants will be gray and pigs will be pink, but then the author introduces the chameleon as not having a color of its own.
We are introduced to one chameleon sitting on a tiger's tail who wants to be his own color, Every time he moves to different places, he always changes color and blends in with his surroundings, The anonymous chameleon is distraught because he can't be just one color like other animals, He runs into another chameleon, who is just like him, The older and wiser chameleon tells the protagonist that being unique isn't a bad thing and that he was not alone.
They become friends and they both have fun changing colors together, A Color of His Own is a short fable on the importance of being yourself and making good friends,

When I look at the title page, I noticed the correlation between bright colors and the colors that chameleons can turn into.
The page background on both the title and the inside pages are just white space, This white space helps pop out the bright and vibrant colors, I could also tell that the certain mood of the book represents a different color, like a mood ring, On one page, the chameleon sits on a red leaf and he turns red, The color red in this situation represents the chameleon's frustration about blending in with his surroundings, The text is brief, plain, and only one to two sentences, Lionni in the beginning of the novel starts with this idea that every animal has one color to their own, except for chameleons.
The chameleon protagonist in the story represents someone who is different from the cultural norm or goes against the grain.
Instead of staying in one color like the rest of the animals, the chameleon changes colors to blend in with the background.
His desire to be one color represents that he wants to fit in like everyone else, When the chameleon meets another friend just like him, the friend gives the chameleon a wise moral about being yourself and not changing who you are.
A Color of His Own was surprisingly beautiful! The vivid colors of the illustrations and the important moral made me feel positive and good inside.
For being such a short book, I didn't expect it to have a moral or significant plot, Not only does this book identify animals and colors, but teaches children to be themselves and make true friends, ! I love this book. . Helps my daughter with learning colors and even about animals, She is never blared when we read this book, Upset that he doesn't have a colour of his own, a little chameleon searches for an answer to his problem and, more importantly, how he can fit in with all the other animals.
Having isolated himself from others because of this difference, his finds his answer in discovering that someone else is the same as him.
It's an interesting book but I wonder if it celebrates social segregation rather than acceptance, Food for thought and I can't dismiss how much I like Lionni's watercolours, I was thrilled that this book could say so much in so few words, It's colorful, shares the world with little ones in an interesting and fun way and teaches a valuable lesson in the mix.
Great book that teaches young children to embrace their individuality, The A Color of His Own's protagonist is a chameleon who wishes he could be one color all the time, like the other animals he sees.
He decides to spend the rest of his life on a green leaf so that he will always be green.
While I appreciate the dilemma and the melancholy tone it sets, I do not like the resolution, It felt like an answer to a question that wasn't asked, Though I'd be willing to change my mind if it were intended to send a message in support of samesex relationships, which is one way to read the book.
My other big criticism is with the illustrations, First, the descriptions aren't always accurate goldfish are NOT red, Second, the color of the illustrations often doesn't match the description e, g. , the "yellow" lemon is lime green and the "black" winter night is actually purple, This made the book a useless teaching tool for a toddler who's trying to name and understand his world, Wait, you're telling me that "yellow" looks like that All in all, it was a big disappointment, This is my favourite Lionni so far, A simple story with beautiful, colourful illustrations, If I had a small child around I would definitely buy a copy, This would make a lovely board book for a baby, I was left wondering who was first, Lionni with this one or Eric Carle with The Mixed Up Cameleon both published in.


Read on open library, Amazing book for infants. Mymonths old loves this book, Bright beautiful colors. Leo Leonni, another author I read a ton of when I was little This was a great book about a lonely chameleon trying to find a find a color of his own.
All the other animals and things have a color of their own and he keeps changing, Then he meets an older wiser chameleon who says that he will always change colors but they can do it together an never be alone.
The illustrations are large and brightly colored, This is a good story about being yourself with bold eye catching pictures that children will love, Featured in our grandma reads session today,

This colorful guy longs for a place/identity of his own, His skin seems to betray him since it changes to match his environment, After many tries, and a creative collaboration that seems to be the answer and fails, together they finally find a place that atop polkadotted mushrooms is where they and the author bring the tale to a close.


Interesting response from older listeners one states that is not the way the chameleon really works and he began to launch into the scientifics of it all before the crowd pulled him to the ground, and another young observer's voice rose over the din, reminding all that this didn't really solve the problem in that the two were going to have to stay on the dotted mushrooms forever to remain that way, and mushrooms don't have long lives.


stars, for the ensuing discussions and debates, but no higher since we cannot confirm the question was really resolved.
. It was a good book about being what's inside of you, It doesn't matter what color you are or what you look like, it matters inside and who your friends are.
Your friends like you for who you are if they're good friends, And if you don't like the way you look, don't pay attention to that! Pay attention to what's inside of you.
Pigs are always pink and elephants are always gray, so the chameleon in this story wishes he could also remain the same color at all times.
Even staying in the same place won't work when that place is a leaf that changes colors with the seasons and eventually falls off the tree.
It isn't until he meets another chameleon who faces his same dilemma that he finds resolution, The other chameleon suggests that they stay together so that they would always be the same color! The plot reminds me of the Dr.
Seuss quote, "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
" I think its message is that you are never alone, There will always be someone out there that can understand you, This book is a Lionni masterpiece, in my opinion, I love the beautiful, bright watercolor illustrations of the colorchanging chameleons and other animals with dominant white space on each page.
I enjoyed the silly colorchanges of the chameleon too, like when he has tiger stripes and red and white polka dots.
I also think this book is good for little ones who are learning color names, "A color of his own" by Leo Lionni is a wonderful book, I love this book because of it's main idea, The story is about being accepted, and learning to accept yourself, He first explains that chameleons change colors with whichever object they are near, and continues on with his sad story of not being accepted.
After roaming around for quite a while, he runs into another chameleon, The only difference was that

this chameleon was much older and wiser, He informs the main character that he is not afraid of being different and then offers to stick by his side.
They continue on being the same colors together and living happily ever after, This text, belonging to the fiction genre, shows that some of us may not know what color we are, literally or metaphorically, the most we can hope for is to find someone with whom we can share all our different colors with.
. and this chameleon does just that,

As a teacher, I would use this text to send many messages to my students, This delightful book captures a child's attention with simple content and colorful illustrations, while teaching them about feelings of belonging, friendship, compassion, and the most obvious colors: green, red, gray, pink, yellow, and purple.
You may involve activities asking the students "What color would you like to be if you were a chameleon" This allows the students to open their minds to the many things they can be as an individual.


After reading "A Color Of His Own" I learned that Leo Lionni was born in Holland and educated in Italy.
He lived in many different places and learned a number of cultures and languages through his travels, He was half Jewish and even as he got older, he split his time between different states, Therefore, this text relates to his personal background greatly, Traveling and not fitting into one place at all times is much of how the chameleon felt, The other does a great job relating real life incidents to acceptance, With the clever idea of a chameleon changing colors and the simple, yet engaging, illustrations, Lionni is able to covey a complex message of individualism.
You may not have everything you want, but you can still be happy with what you have and you have to be prepared for change.
If you look around, you will find others just like you that will be more than happy to extend their friendship.
This is definitely a children's book I would recommend, .