A Color of His Own follows a chameleon exploring the issues of personal identity, conformity, and the value of friendship. A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have a color of his own like other animals. A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals.
This book will be available shortly on the International Children's Digital Library, a joint project of the Internet Archive and University Of Maryland. A chameleon doesn't have a color of his own. He turns the colors of whatever is around him! In the classic children's book "A color of his own" by Leo Lionni, a chameleon feels sad but then finds.
Every animal has a color of its own. "Parrots are green, elephants are gray, pigs are pink." But chameleons change color wherever they go. "On lemons they are yellow.
In the heather they are purple." One chameleon is not pleased with his changeable appearance. He thinks, "If I remain on a leaf, I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." Of course, what he doesn't take. Activities can accompany readings, asking children what colors they would choose if they were chameleons.
Questions like "What makes you unique?" can inspire conversations about self-acceptance. Furthermore, "A Color of His Own" serves as a backdrop for lessons about animals and adaptation. When another chameleon suggests they travel together, he learns that companionship is more important than having a color of his own.
A Color of His Own Author: Leo Lionni Plot Summary: All animals have colors of their own except for the chameleon, which changes colors based on its environment. The chameleon sees a green leaf and says, "If I remain on a leaf I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." However, when the leaf turns orange, the chameleon turns orange, and when the leaf turns red so. Every animal has his own special color/s except the chameleon.
He changes colors wherever he goes. This is the story of a chameleon that wanted to have a special color like all the other animals. It was not until he met another chameleon did he learn how special he really was.
Materials Seek and find letter C Several sponges cut into small pieces. Chameleons for hiding Vocabulary Chameleon (a. Only the chameleon has no color of his own.
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. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red... and so does the chameleon.
The chameleon's search for his own unique color leads to self-acceptance when he meets a wiser and older chameleon who offers comfort with, "We will still change color wherever we go, but you and I will always be alike." The message in this book is universal: With our wide spectrum of emotions, interests, likes and dislikes (our colors), we are constantly trying to answer the Who am I? (What.