Welcome to Litsy!

I loved the YA book “The One and Only Ivan”. This is a really nice children‘s story about the same gorilla with such a sad life. Really great illustrations. Despite it being so short and succinct (it‘s a kid‘s book), this one still had me crying a couple of times. There are a few pages at the end with a longer textual summary of Ivan‘s life and a note from one of the zookeeper‘s who took care of him in his last decade of life

The One and Only Ivan is a great book. Not many people know about its nonfiction picture book companion. This is a picture of my son with his statue at the Pt Defiance zoo. He never lived there. While he was caged at a mall, the zoo animals were in tiny pens, not much better. At the time of his rescue people realized that we needed to improve how we treat animals. I grew up in Tacoma with Ivan, his story says a lot about us. #everybodybooks

#wordsofoctober #remarkable

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A children's picture book about the true story of Ivan, the gorilla we all got to meet and fall in love with in Applegate's other book, The One and Only Ivan. The illustrations were ok but the story is indeed remarkable how Ivan came to live in a shopping mall in Tacoma Washington.

#Riotgrams Day 1: #shelfie

Here is Lucy in her natural habitat, reading a nonfiction book about her favorite fiction, The One and Only Ivan.

I loved Applegate's "The One and Only Ivan" so I'm delighted she followed up with a picture book. This is a beautiful story of how people stood up for what was right. I needed an everyday heroes kind of story today.