Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.
Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.
Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.
Katherine Applegate's many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He was a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation's largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan was well known for his paintings, which he "signed" with a thumbprint.
Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.
动物之梦 这是“一个根据真实故事改编的童话”,故事的主角是大猩猩,叫伊凡。伊凡喜欢“气泡瀑布般的汽水,喜欢朝人丢它的粪球”,但很少有人知道,大猩猩伊凡最喜欢的事情是画画。 会画画的大猩猩伊凡,来自美国儿童文学家凯瑟琳·艾波盖特,获得纽伯瑞儿童文学奖...
评分这是一本探索人与动物关系的书,尽管这样的探索偏向稚嫩化,但却足以打动人心。马戏团里的人与动物是雇佣的关系,好比人利用着、驱使着动物。可是,在这样的情形下,动物成了彻彻底底的赚钱的工具,人与动物的关系被异化。而动物园,一个看似美好的地方,动物可以在自己那一小...
评分今天北京阴雨霏霏,去小区门口取快递时,发现几株玉兰树上已是花苞朵朵了,原本那是每年春来时喜人的景色,尤其是给上下班的路上增加色彩,但如今每日开车,反倒没有机会遇见,差一点就错过了报春的消息。 这本书也是闺女推荐的,复工后被现场和远程交流的夹击下,工作与生活时...
评分 评分当你看到动物被关在笼子里的时候,那些在丛林里玩耍的动物被人类折磨,你骑在大象背上的时候,却不知道这温顺从何而来,你有没有想到动物需要家,那些马戏团里的小棚子,不是它们的家,而是一个笼子,,关押动物的笼子,丛林,大自然才是他们真正的家,人类与动物天生共存,没...
A good zoo is how humans make amends. 从一只gorilla 的角度去讲了一个,mighty silverback 怎么去拯救一只小象的故事。被囚禁在马戏团从事表演,作为the one and only one,是多么痛苦的事情。以后不会去看任何动物表演。
评分童书总是能给我一种很特别的感觉。纯粹,简单,让人不由得把成年人的装甲卸下,回到一个很基本很初级的自我。
评分作者不仅仅是将自己的想象融入了一个真实的故事当中,更是把许多在人类看来匪夷所思的动物行为合理化成一个个可爱又感人的举动。谁又不是像Ivan一样孤独却又在尽己所能爱着身边每一个人呢?
评分诗一般
评分It is really a children's book with quick but happy ending though most of the time the world is crueler and more hopeless than it seems to be in books. It reminds me of those disheveled and hairless animals like goats confined in cramped rooms in our old local zoo in the old days. Thinking of that makes me feel sad.
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