Book's Review - Blue Chameleon

By Emily Gravett
ISBN : 9781442419582

Description
Chameleon can turn himself into anything and appear to fit in anywhere, but it seems that neither the swirly snail, the green grasshopper nor the striped sock want to be friends. Will he ever find someone to talk to? Someone just like him?
With a subtle and witty interplay between words and illustrations this introduction to colors and shapes (and chameleons!) is sure to delight kids of all ages.




The Blue Chameleon is a picture book about shapes and colors for very young readers. The Blue Chameleon is lonely. He hopes to meet a friend, each time he wants to fit in, that he turns the same color as them. He becomes yellow like the banana,

pink like a cockatoo,

brown like a boot,

gold like the fish,

green like the grasshopper etc.

Frustrated that he can't find a friend, he turns gray like the rock he is sitting on, exclaiming "I give up".

Until one day he meet the perfect friend who is just as colorful as him.

Comments:
The text is minimal in this book. There is basically just one word on each page. One page consists of a color, and on the opposite is the name of same color object. The illustrations are cute, and I could see how this would be a useful book for teaching very young children their colors.