- Animals, Elephants, Fiction, Gorilla
Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Katherine Applegate
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Wydawnictwo CzyTam, Gran Travesía
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9788992711036
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Katherine Alice Applegate is an American writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series. She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her children's novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards. - [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Applegate)
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