The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Miss Czubak wanted to read, but she has been. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Click on the video to listen to me read several chapters of The One and Only Ivan. Release date: January 17, 2012 | Age Range: 8 and up. The One and Only Ivan is the 2013 Newbery Medal Award Winner. The One and Only Ivan - Announcing the 2013 Newbery Medal Winner! Just ask Ivan, who lives at the Big Top Mall. Syndetics-lc It's not easy being a gorilla. I just learned about The One and Only Ivan (from a school book order ad announcing it as this year's Newberry Award winner). A large billboard by the highway advertises “The One and Only Ivan, Mighty Silverback. 9780061992254_p0_v4_s260x420 With dignity and sensitivity, Ivan, the captured silverback gorilla, narrates in his own voice in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan. Now he lives in a small cage where he drinks Pepsi, eats old apples, and watches reruns on TV. Ivan, the narrator of our story, lives in the highway-side Big Top Mall, where he makes pithy observations on humans and their ways.