Ivan: An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade for 27 years.Ivan and Ruby are both adopted by the same zoo, where they begin adapting to their new habitats and the other animals they now live with. Ivan, Ruby, and the other animals are taken away to a zoo. Investigators are sent to the Big Top Mall and eventually, it is closed down. When people see the new signs, they begin to protest the treatment of the animals. George and Julia help him by putting it on the billboard outside of the Big Top Mall. Ivan uses his art to make a large picture of a zoo. He no longer thinks of his area as his domain but as a cage. He also changes his opinion of the Big Top Mall. When Julia, the custodian George's daughter, gives Ivan some finger paints, he begins to get an idea of how to help Ruby. While Mack, the owner of the Big Top Mall is trying to train Ruby to do tricks, Ivan witnessed first-hand the abuse to which she is subjected and starts to decide how to keep his promise to Stella.

Īfter Stella's death, Ivan begins to remember his life before the Big Top Mall and what it was like to have freedom if only to have stories to tell to Ruby. Ivan promises he will take care of Ruby, even though he does not know how he will manage to do it. Just before Stella succumbs to her illness and passes away, she asks Ivan to take care of Ruby and find her a better place. Stella's old injury causes her to get sick. When Ruby, a baby elephant, is brought to the Big Top Mall to live with Stella and learn new tricks, things begin to change. Stella believes that good zoos are how humans make amends. However, Stella wanted to live in a zoo, because they have much wider spaces for their domains. Unlike Ivan, Stella has a long memory and can remember living in other places, like the circus where she was taught many of her tricks. Stella is an older elephant who has a chronic injury in one leg and regularly performs in the daily shows. Along with Ivan, Stella, an elephant, and Bob, a stray dog, live at the mall. He watches television, eats bananas, and makes artwork that is sold by the owner.

He lives in his domain, and is generally content with his life. Ivan, the Silverback Gorilla, has lived in captivity at the Big Top Mall for 9,855 days by his own tally. The story is placed at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall by the Video Arcade. It was followed in 2020 by The One and Only Bob, presented from the point of view of Ivan's best friend, the dog Bob. It has won several other awards and is currently nominated to several reading lists. In 2013 it was named the winner of the Newbery Medal. It is about a silverback gorilla named Ivan who lived in a cage at a mall, and is written from Ivan's point of view. The One and Only Ivan is a 2012 novel written by Katherine Applegate and illustrated by Patricia Castelao.

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