{"id":18786,"date":"2013-02-22T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2013-02-16T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:15:47","slug":"the-one-and-only-ivan-by-katherine-applegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-one-and-only-ivan-by-katherine-applegate\/","title":{"rendered":"The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=the%20one%20and%20only%20ivan%20applegate&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18801\" alt=\"ivan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ivan.jpg?resize=284%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"284\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ivan.jpg?w=284&amp;ssl=1 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ivan.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a>The 2013 Newbery award winner, Katherine Applegate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=the%20one%20and%20only%20ivan%20applegate&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The One and Only Ivan<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, is everything you might expect it to be, plus a little extra. Ivan is a silverback gorilla, a natural-born protector and warrior of the animal kingdom; as the narrator, his stream-of-consciousness thoughts and memories make up the novel. After poachers pluck the infant Ivan away from his home in the jungle, his domain of 27 years is a run-down circus, and his only friends are the other few animals there. But with the arrival of Ruby, a baby elephant, Ivan suddenly has someone to protect, and he sets off on a course to change all their lives for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Like other winners, Applegate tackles a delicate, powerful subject and makes it accessible to children. Also like others, the writing is elegant and spare, made accessible to a young audience but no less sophisticated for it. There\u2019s humor and heartbreak, but they don\u2019t exactly balance each other \u2013 if you can\u2019t handle sad animal stories you will have to stay far, far away from Ivan. Despite a hopeful, happy, neatly-wound-up ending, the grim tone of this book and its experimental structure make it an unusual book for children, but one that I\u2019d recommend to them as wholeheartedly as I would recommend it to an adult. It\u2019s a story of friendship and adventure and creativity, and a great addition to the list of Newbery winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Newbery award winner, Katherine Applegate&#8217;s The One and Only Ivan, is everything you might expect it to be, plus a little extra. Ivan is a silverback gorilla, a natural-born protector and warrior of the animal kingdom; as the narrator, his stream-of-consciousness thoughts and memories make up the novel.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-one-and-only-ivan-by-katherine-applegate\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[799,2200,2010,2199],"class_list":["post-18786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-animals","tag-award-winner","tag-juvenile","tag-newbery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4T0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions\/18807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}