Today's Podcast 05/30/2012

• Applegate, Katherine. THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN

  Applegate, Katherine. THE ONE AND ONLY IVANNew York : Harper, 2012IL 3-6, RL 4.0ISBN 0061992259 Attention animal fans! Meet Ivan! Ivan is a silverback gorilla who lives in a glass and metal enclosure at the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade which is “conveniently located off I-95”. Ivan lives there with an old elephant named Stella and Bob, a stray dog. Ivan watches TV, draws pictures and sometimes he throws me-balls (dried balls of gorilla dung) at the humans coming to see him. This story is told by Ivan and his story changes when Ivan promises his friend Stella to take care of Ruby, a newly arrived baby elephant Ivan’s story is based on a true story of a Gorilla now living at Zoo Atlanta. The real life Ivan is also a painter of pictures Read about Ivan and his animal and human friends in “the One and Only Ivan”. (Booktalk written by Lorreen Keating-GSF Committee/North Hampton Public Library)

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