Things aren’t so bad.īut then, Ruby, a baby elephant, arrives and she does remember her past, including what it was like in the wild. He has a little TV, and his friendship with Stella, and he likes to draw (the owner of the mall sells his crayon drawings for $20 a pop). Ivan doesn’t mind his life – in fact, he pretty much never thinks about his life before he arrived here. Twice a day, he and the elderly elephant, Stella, along with a few other animals, put on a little circus show. Ivan, a silverback gorilla, lives in a cage (he prefers the term “domain”) at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. the one and only ivan by katherine applegate Sometimes the Newbery committee really lets me down (am I taking it too personally? Maybe so), but they delivered this year. Here is a book I would recommend without hesitation to older elementary school students, parents, fellow readers.just about anyone.
This is the perfect combination of beautifully written and just absolutely gripping. I started it two weeks ago just before bed and then blazed through the rest of it while Ani snoozed in my arms at the library in Dallas.
Seriously? A book from the point of view of a gorilla?īut then it was on the shelf at the library and I am trying (very very slowly) to read through all the Newbery titles, so I picked it up. So, you can imagine that I was a bit wary of The One and Only Ivan when it won the Newbery. On the other hand, I shy away from fantasy that heavily features made-up worlds/animals/language, non-fiction with very tiny text, and. I also cannot say no to food-related non-fiction or pop psychology. I know, for example, that I’m likely to enjoy most historical fiction set during the last two centuries, YA romances, everything by Sophie Kinsella, and anything that has to do with time travel. One of the things about growing up, I think, is that you get a pretty strong sense of what books you’ll like and which ones you won’t.
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