The Mixed-Up Charmeleon

Author: Eric Carle

Ilustrator: Various

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Publication Date: 1973

Genre: Picture Book

Audience: Gr. Pre K-2

Overview: This is the story of a charmeleon that sincronizes his colours with the medium in which it is placed. One day he finds a zoo a get amazed by the beauty of the different animals there. He decides to take one caracteristic he likes of each sigl animal in the zoo till he realizes that he is not himself anymore and decides to come back to his original complexion.

Activity: It would be suitable to work with the kids in a project where everyone picks the caracteristics they like of the people they know and share their thought with their classmates.

Reviewer's Name: Luis Jar