Ivan the gorilla

Illustration for the cover of The One and Only Ivan by Patricia Castelao.

THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN: 2013 Newbery winner K. A. Applegate blogs about research & shares an image of the novel “signed” with Ivan’s thumbprint!

Every life at the Zoo is a story worth sharing, but his story was once told so widely and passionately that it ignited a national movement that touched two coasts. From the jungles of Africa to the shores of the Pacific Northwest to The Ford African Rain Forest at Zoo Atlanta, his life has been a symbol of the way animals shape our lives – and the power we have to shape theirs.

For 27 years, the world of Ivan the gorilla was a dull cage in a roadside shopping mall. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant captured out of the wild.

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Ivan the Gorilla® with Santa Claus at the B&I circa 1965

Despite his years in captivity, Ivan’s story had a happy ending and it has been made into a film released on Disney + on Friday, The One and Only Ivan which features Bryan Cranston

Ivan the Gorilla is the titular protagonist of the 2020 Disney+ film The One and Only Ivan, based on the same real-life gorilla. He is the main attraction of a small circus located in the Big Top Mall with all his friends, so Ivan pretends to behave like an angry gorilla to the crowd but over time he realizes that he would only like to be free. Ivan, then a young gorilla commonly known as Mud because he liked to play in the mud, lived in the wild with his father, his sister Tag (so named…

Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan was inspired by a real-life gorilla who lived in a mall in Tacoma, Wash. The author says humans have "a real obligation" to care responsibly for animals in captivity.

The One and Only Ivan By Katherine Applegate Illustrated by Patricia Castelao Harper Collins $16.99 ISBN: 9780-06-199225-4 Ages 9-12 On shelves now All right, the topic is Famous Ape Books of Children’s Literature. And . . . go. Care to name any? Well there’s Curious George, of course (often mistakenly called a monkey in spite […]