This picture book was very cute, yet it taught a great lesson. The book mainly followed two chameleons, who were best friends. They live in a peaceful forest and love catching bugs to eat. One day they catch the same bug and they don't want to share. The chameleons disrupt the entire forest by fighting over the delicious bug they have both caught. Eventually, the bug gets a way and the two chameleons are almost lunch for two crocodiles. They end up saving each other and realize how close they were to really messing up over fighting. They go back through the forest and apologize to all the other animals whose lives were disrupted over their dispute. While I was reading this book, I thought of all the times my sisters and I had arguments that were really dumb in the long run. While our fights and arguments didn't lead to us almost getting eaten by crocodiles, they were still over petty little things that really weren't fighting over. The author makes it easy for the reader to make connections with the story and I think that most people could connect with this story.
The author used many different writing styles in this book. The font wasn't like a typical book and I think students would like this. There were a lot of sound effects in the book as well as some of the text being in text boxes. The pictures were also very good and really showed how the chameleons were disrupting the peaceful forest. This book would be great to use in the classroom as an example of how arguing and fighting disrupt everything. Students can also tell how arguing and fighting with siblings or friends isn't fun and share their experiences.
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