He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. Book Synopsis The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni. Vivid illustrations and spare prose make this gentle story a perfect read-aloud. Leo Lionni died in October 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of eighty-nine.About the Book For the first time in paperback, heres the charming story of a chameleon who, in search of his own color, finds something even more special. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal, was a four-time Caldecott Honor winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse-and was honored posthumously in 2007 with the Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award. An internationally known designer, illustrator, graphic artist, and children’s book author, he was born in 1910 in Holland and came to the United States in 1939. Leo Lionni, wrote and illustrated more than forty highly acclaimed children’s books. We will still change color wherever we go, but you and I will always be alike.”Īnd so they remained side by side. “But,” he added, “why don’t we stay together? “I’m afraid not,” said the other chameleon who was older and wiser. “Won’t we ever have a color of our own?” he asked. The chameleon was black in the long winter night.īut when spring came he walked out into the green grass. Later the leaf turned red and the chameleon too turned red.Īnd then the winter winds blew the leaf from the branch and with it the chameleon.
With this thought he cheerfully climbed onto the greenest leaf.īut in autumn the leaf turned yellow -and so did the chameleon. “If I remain on a leaf I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own.” One day a chameleon who was sitting on a tiger’s tail said to himself, All animals have a color of their ownĪnd on the tiger they are striped like tigers. Title Page Copyright First Page About the Author summary: A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn’t have his own color like other animals. published in 1975 under title: A colour of his own. Visit us on the Web! /kids and Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at /teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Lionni, Leo. KNOPF, BORZOI BOOKS, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Copyright renewed 2003 by Nora Lionni and Louis Mannie Lionni. To Vera Barbara THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A.
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