Children’s Tale Invites Readers to Reflect on Their Special Abilities While it is no superhero tale, Ovid Singh’s Benedict and the Magic Chameleon is a heroic story of a boy who comes into terms with his ‘power’. As the first book in the series, Benedict and the Magic Chameleon (AuthorHouse, 2016) appears as a fun and fantastic origin story of Benedict, a young village boy who obtains the power to change the color of his eyes after he is spat at by a chameleon. He is then advised by the village soothsayer, who warns him against revealing his extraordinary ability or else he risks losing it. It is a known fact that children tend to brag and/or get overconfident about their skills and talents. Many of the grown-ups behave this way too;