Crafty Chameleon
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BfK No. 55 - March 1989
Cover Story
The striking illustration on our cover is taken from The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, published by Dorling Kindersley (0 86318 323 9, £15.00).
We are grateful to Dorling Kindersley for help in using this illustration.
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Crafty Chameleon
Illustrated by Adrienne Kennaway
(Hodder Children's Books)
978-0340486986, RRP £5.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
Adrienne Kennaway won the Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustration of this story. Judging from the moments of hushed silence that was the children's response to it, the combination of strong, economic text and the powerful illustration merited it. The story of the chamelcon's plan to teach the leopard and the crocodile a well-deserved lesson has the age-old appeal of the underdog winning through, merely by using his wits against their might!
