Leo Lionni - A Color of His Own

To Vera Barbara THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright 1975 by Leo Lionni. Copyright renewed 2003 by Nora Lionni and Louis Mannie Lionni.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Lionni, Leo.

A color of his own. British ed. published in 1975 under title: A colour of his own.
summary: A little chameleon is distressed that he doesnt have his own color like other animals. [1. ChameleonsFiction.] I. All animals have a color of their own except for chameleons. They change color wherever they go. On lemons they are yellow. In the heather they are purple. In the heather they are purple.

And on the tiger they are striped like tigers. One day a chameleon who was sitting on a tigers tail said to himself, If I remain on a leaf I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own. With this thought he cheerfully climbed onto the greenest leaf. But in autumn the leaf turned yellow and so did the chameleon. Later the leaf turned red
and the chameleon too turned red. The chameleon was black in the long winter night. The chameleon was black in the long winter night.

But when spring came he walked out into the green grass. And there he met another chameleon. He told his sad story. Wont we ever have a color of our own? he asked. Im afraid not, said the other chameleon who was older and wiser. And so they remained side by side. They were green together and purple and yellow and red with white polka dots. And they lived happily ever after. Leo Lionni, wrote and illustrated more than forty highly acclaimed childrens books. Leo Lionni, wrote and illustrated more than forty highly acclaimed childrens books.

An internationally known designer, illustrator, graphic artist, and childrens book author, he was born in 1910 in Holland and came to the United States in 1939. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal, was a four-time Caldecott Honor winnerfor Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy,