This is a great story; as usual Eric Carle's illustrations just jump off the page, making everything seem alive. This story was a good follow up for the kids discussion on chameleons today. It reinforced what they learned about chameleons changing colors. A few pictures also supported the fact that a chameleon's eyes are independent of each other and can look two ways at once, I never knew this before so that was interesting. If I hadn't seen my cooperating teacher mention this to the class I wo...

This book is about a chameleon who goes to a zoo and sees all of the other unique animals and wishes it could have all of the other characteristics that the animals have. The chameleon receives features of every animal that he likes, but ends up not being too mixed up and wishes to be himself again. A lot of staples that are found in books by Carle can be found in this one. He uses repetition to progress the evolution of the chameleon, while using cutouts of the animals on the left-side of the p...

This book is about a chameleon who changes colors depending on his surroundings. The chameleon decides to go to the zoo where there are many animals. The chameleon wishes he could be like all the other animals at the zoom. After wishing he could be all the other animals the chameleon realizes that he needs to be himself in order to be happy, so he wishes to be himself again. This book can teach children how to be happy with themselves. Even though you can like other people or things, in the end

Text-to-Text ConnectionThe Mixed up Chameleon becomes bored with his daily routine until one day he sees the zoo. As he begins to admire characteristics about the other animals he wishes he could be anything but himself. I would compare The Mixed up Chameleon to the book A Color of His Own, which is also about a chameleon. However, the chameleon in A Color of His Own is simply looking for a color of his own instead of always camouflaging with objects in his environment. A great response activity...

This book is a great addition to any Elementary classroom. This book hits many learning points such as the recognition and labeling of colors and the characteristics of a Chameleon species. The story goes on to reveal that being your self is usually the best choice. The story conveys that it might seem like other people have important qualities that are of greater importance than you’re your own, but embracing your own qualities as being unique and important is key. This story has illustrations

A chameleon becomes bored with his life after seeing all the unique animals at the zoo. He discovers he can change his size and shape as well as his color.It was fun to teach my son about chameleons; how they can change colors and their eyes move independently (which was portrayed correctly in the book). As always, Eric Carle's illustrations are beautiful and the story was a sweet one, too.

Imbalanced text-to-illustration ratio, and Carle's abstract style doesn't lend itself perfectly well to what the book is trying to do (chameleon tries to look like a bunch of different zoo animals), but it's a fun book to use for talking about animals and colors.

Love Eric Carle's style... he creates quite the hybrid animal in this book!

Such a wonderful story with a strong message. A book to hug.

This book is similar to a colour of his own by Leo Leonni. The story follows a chameleon who doesn't appreciate his own qualities and wishes to be like others, until he realises being himself is the only way he feels right. The illustrations are done in the same style as the hungry caterpillar and so seem familiar. Overall a great book for children in key stage 1 and foundation stage.

Check out more Picture book reviews @ Perspective of a Writer...The mixed up chameleon is unhappy with himself and when he visits a zoo wishes to be other animals... as his wish comes true he realizes he wants to be simply... himself.My nephew was quite puzzled at this book and frankly so was I! We read it together but couldn't seem to understand why it was cobbling other animals onto itself. I had to hit reviews and the afterward to finally understand what was happening. Normally the cut outs

I loved this book as much as everyone's Eric Carle favourite - the Very Hungry Caterpillar. The face of the chameleon who never quite matches his surroundings is precious. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a book to entertain them as much as their child.

This book was good, but I didn't really understand it until I read the Author Bio at the end, after the story. It was only upon reading about Eric Carle's process (or inspiration?) for writing this book that I understood why the chameleon ended up with parts of all the animals he had seen on him.So this was a fun story, but it just seemed fun - without point - until after I read the Author Bio. :-(

Eric Carle is fabulous. My daughter and I love all his books!!!

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The book is written in a portrait orientation. The end pages are textured like leaves or a fern which fits with the subject of the story which is about a chameleon. The colors are very bright and colorful. The illustrations are done in a collage with paper cut into shapes and made into the animals. If there is a ground in the illustration, it is full bleed whereas most of the illustrations are done on a white background. The text is very simple. The illustrations are very unrealistic with a lot

Text-to-world connection. Are we happy with ourselves??? Would we like to be someone else???? This book was a great way to explain the thought process of many people. A lot of people are not happy with who they are. Just like in the book we as people wish we can be something or someone else. Just because someone or something look good doesn’t mean it is good. In my opinion we as people get so wrapped in what we see on the outside and thinking that is all good when it is not. Just like the chame...

It’s great to be me! Loved this one.

All of Eric Carle's books are PERFECT reads for all kids!!!!!!!!

Good message!