Leo Lionni

Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red . . . and so does the chameleon. When another chameleon suggests they travel together, he learns that...

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either.

A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green

Three selfish frogs quarrel over who owns their pond and island, until a storm makes them value the benefits of sharing.

A strong wind blows most of the letters off the alphabet tree and those that remain hide among the branches. Then a bug and a caterpillar come along and teach them how to arrange themselves into words and sentences to form a special message

A snail's father advises him to keep his house small and tells him what happened to a snail that grew a large and spectacular shell.

An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.

"Two mice talk about where the seasons come from"--