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Curious about each other’s lives, they propose switching roles. Soon they discover the difficulty of unfamiliar abilities—sticky feet, climbing surfaces, and coping with heat. They choose to switch back, returning to their own habitats while keeping a lasting friendship.","The Green Lizard and the Gecko Soeung Leakhena  \nYuom Kosal, Sou Sophy, Soeurm Kakada, Touch Kaosal, Chan Sophom  \nIt was evening. Green lizard crawled on a branch. Suddenly, she noticed a gecko stuck to the wall of a house. Oh! A new friend, she thought.  \n”Hello, I am a green lizard,” she said. ”I like to hunt for food in the day.”  \n”Hello, I am a gecko,” he said. ”I like to hunt for food at night.”  \nThe two reptiles were very interested in one another’s lives.  \n”How about we switch how we live?” said the gecko . ”I am bored on the wall. I could hunt on trees and in the grass, like you do!”  \n”And I could climb up walls to hunt, like you do!” answered the green lizard. ”It will be such fun!”  \nA few days later... My hands and feet aren’t sticky like the gecko’s, realized the green lizard. I can’t climb on walls like him. I can’t hunt! Ooooh, I’m so hungry.  \nMeanwhile... I can’t bear this daytime heat! realized the gecko . My skin is not like the lizard’s . I’m so hot, I can’t hunt. And I’m soooo hungry!  \nAnd so they decided to switch back. The green lizard went back to her tree and happily hunted for food in the day.  \nThe gecko went back to his wall and happily hunted for food at night. And they stayed friends... ...who sometimes met in the evening.  \nBrought to you by  \nLet’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific.  \nTo read more books like this and get further information,  \nvisit: [letsreadasia.org](letsreadasia.org)  \nOriginal Story  \nThe Green Lizard and the Gecko. Author: Soeung Leakhena. Illustrator: Yuom Kosal, Sou Sophy, Soeurm Kakada, Touch Kaosal, Chan Sophom.  \nPublished by Room to Read, © Room to Read. Released under CC-BY-4 .0.  \nThis work is a modified version of the original story. @ The Asia Foundation, 2019. Some rights reserved. 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