Ivan: The Remarkable True Story
of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate, illus. by G. Brian Karas
“In 2013 Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan won the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to children’s literature. Ivan, the gorilla, now comes to life in picture book form. Ivan was brought to the United States from the Congo as a baby. For three years he lived in a home like a human child. Then he …