A narrating chameleon who has quite a high opinion of himself doesn\u2019t appreciate his camouflage capability: \u201cI am a KING! But how can I command a king\u2019s respect\u2026when color-changing skin makes me so tricky to detect?!\u201d The chameleon proceeds to regale readers with a series of springy rhymes that offer hints about his location in the corresponding outdoor scenes\u2014e.g., \u201cDon\u2019t stare at boring dirt mounds while I\u2019m looking oh-\u00adso fine! \/ YOU BETTER COME AND FIND ME NOW! I\u2019m near that leafy vine!\u201d (Readers will likely need to make use of the answer key: King Chameleon is devilishly hard to spot.) The latter part of the book is given over to a be-careful-what-you-wish-for story in which the chameleon rolls around in the mud in order to become visible to readers, but this decision also attracts the attention of (uh-oh) a hawk. (The idea is that the reader\u2014the chameleon\u2019s \u201cfriend\u201d\u2014saves the day.) Okon is making a hard sell for King Chameleon as an outlandishly fun picture-book star, but it\u2019s the seek-and-finds that are this offering\u2019s calling card. The art has a somewhat garish look, although it isn\u2019t ill suited for a book designed to be visually challenging. The story closes out with further items to go back and search for.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A narrating chameleon who has quite a high opinion of himself doesn\u2019t appreciate his camouflage capability: \u201cI am a KING! But how can I command a king\u2019s respect\u2026when color-changing skin makes me so tricky to detect?!\u201d The chameleon proceeds to regale readers with a series of springy rhymes that offer hints about his location in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}