Chameleon's Colors

by Harriet Evans, Jo Rooks (Illustrator)

Overview

Jump into the jungle with chameleon and the other jungle animals for a raucous rainbow romp.

Can you see all Chameleon's colors? Jump into the jungle and join the creatures for a raucous rainbow romp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680106169
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	02/23/2021
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	321,184
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	AD340L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Harriet Evans works in children's publishing and spends her days researching cool animal facts, imagining awesome adventures, and drinking copious amounts of tea.

Jo Rooks is an author-illustrator who studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Bath School of Art and Design. After graduating Jo worked as a freelance illustrator before joining the design team at BMG and Sony Music. When she started a family, she began to feel inspired to write and illustrate picture books again. She enjoys using watercolors and inks to create colorful, vibrant illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-31
Chameleon uses her ability to change and mimic to demonstrate seven basic colors.

With elements of toy, concept, and rhyming book, this title tries to cover a wide spectrum, but the elements never quite blend. Die-cut openings of diminishing size change the illustrated reptile’s color with each page turn. (The smooth, round edges on the die cuts are a thoughtful touch.) Inside, both art and iambic pentameter rhymes brim with effusive energy but lack nuance. The repetitious text identifies each targeted color and compares it to something found in nature: “I am Chameleon, and this is my tree. / I hide in its leaves—they’re green just like me.” Chameleon, loosely drawn in exuberantly bright art with a watercolor effect, begins as a grinning, green-headed lizard with colorful stripes down her body. As the book progresses, both surroundings and Chameleon’s head clearly change color, so that the yellow-headed chameleon munches a golden mango, then camouflages its pink body among pink blooms. It ends predictably, with a selection of all the colored items clustered together and Chameleon, now crowned and with rainbow stripes restored, declaring herself a “colorful queen.” Though the back cover calls the narrative a “trip along the rainbow,” it is not in rainbow order. It’s adequate, but there are more innovative books about colors and chameleons available. Companion title Shark’s Numbers shares the same die-cut design, but with nothing significant changing about the shark with each page turn, it feels like an arbitrary gimmick.

This book contains many colors, but, ironically, it feels a little drab. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews