“The One And Only Ivan” this book is about a Gorilla named Ivan trying to find a better place for a baby elephant named Ruby. Ivan is an easygoing Gorilla that lives at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. Ivan loves to watch national geographic and painting or drawing. This Gorilla has a touching story about his life growing up, Ivan spent 9,855 days ( 27 years ) in his little domain he had many friends. Ivans friends names are: Bob the stray dog that lives in his domain, Stella the oldest elephant that Ivan new, Julia the one who has inspired Ivan to paint and draw, and George, Julia's father and the only janitor of the whole mall. When a baby elephant comes into Stella’s life it changed everything, and only 3 days of Stella taking care of Ruby, Stella died she died from an infection on her foot and Ivan made a promise to take care of Ruby and to find a safe place to live for Ruby and himself. I will have to say this book really gets a 5 of 5 because Ivan is talking in 3rd person and the book is just too amazing to give a zero. As you can see half of this book Ivan is real, he was in the National Geographic episode called 'The Urban But the rest of this story is fiction. Ivan did live in a mall until it went bankrupt and he was sent to the zoo where he lives happily with his new girlfriend Kinyani, Ivan did have a twin sister but she died when they were being shipped to the US, also Ivan lives in Zoo Atlanta where he is very famous. I cant seem to find any thing that could relate to him and his story. |
One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate08/09/2013
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