“If only they would knuckle walk, they wouldn’t topple so often.” “The boy stood on a wall,” she continues, “watching, pointing, but he lost his balance and fell into the wild cage.” It has room to roam and humans who don’t hurt.” She pauses, considering her words. “A good zoo,” Stella says, “is a large domain.
He’s a street-smart dog, but there’s much he hasn’t seen. He was visiting a gorilla family at a place called a zoo.” “Once upon a time,” Stella begins, “there was a human boy. I like colourful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings.
It’s a favourite of mine but I don’t think Bob has ever heard it.īecause she remembers everything, Stella knows many stories. It is about Jambo a gorilla into whose zoo enclosure falls a human baby. One day Ivan requests Stella to recount the Jambo story. After the humans have left for the night, Ivan and Stella converse with Bob usually napping on Ivan’s large tummy. He lives in a mall with a bunch of other retired circus animals including Stella, an elephant and Bob the stray dog who has adopted him. His frank wisdom about life, both human and animal, provokes laughter and thought his aspirations - to become an artist, and to liberate himself through art - feel universal.” ( ) But the primary reason “Ivan” has become such a beloved book is Ivan himself. The New York Times wrote “It was based, loosely, on a true story it addressed the issue of animal cruelty honestly, but in a manner that children could handle it was technically original, telling the story from Ivan’s perspective, in short chapters that read like prose poems. Katherine Applegate’s Newberry award-winning book The One and Only Ivan (2012) is a stunningly beautiful book and a must read for children and adults alike.
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