《A Color of His Own》，中午翻译名字为《自己的颜色》，这是李欧·李奥尼的作品。（台湾翻译为雷欧·里奥尼）。被誉为“二十世纪的伊索”。代表作《一寸虫》《小黑鱼》《田鼠阿佛》《亚历山大和发条老鼠》分别于 1961年、1964年、1968年及1970年四次荣获美国凯迪克大奖。在他的所有作品中，我最喜欢的作品是《自己的颜色》、《鱼就是鱼》以及《压力山大和发条老鼠》。
英文原版
Parrots are green
Goldfish are red
elephants are gray
Pigs are pink.
All animals have a color of their own.
Expect for chameleons
They change color wherever they go.
On lemons they are yellow.
In the heather they are purple.
And on the tiger they are striped like tigers .
One day a chameleon who was sitting on a tiger’s tail said to himself ,
“ If I remain on a leaf I shall be green forever and so I too will have a color of own”.
With this thought he cheerfully climbed onto the greenest leaf.
But in autumn the leaf turned yellow –and so did the chameleon.
Later the leaf turned red,
and the chameleon too turned red.
And then the winter winds blew the leaf from the branch and with it the chameleon.
The chameleon was black in the long winter night.
But when spring came he walked out into the green grass.
And there he met another chameleon.
He told his sad story .
"Won’t we ever have a color of our own?" he asked.
"I'm afraid not." said the other chameleon
who was older and wiser.
"But," he added,
"why don't we stay together?
we will still change color wherever we go,
but you and I will always be alike."
And so they remained side by side.
They were green together.
and purple
and yellow
and red with white polka dots
And they lived happy ever after.
