But Applegate’s newest book is something completely different. Titled “The One and Only Ivan” (HarperCollins, $16.99), her novel features a gorilla as the main protagonist. It’s an unusual ...

"People call me the Freeway Gorilla. The Ape at Exit 8. The One and Only Ivan, Mighty Silverback. The names are mine, but they're not me. I am Ivan, just Ivan, only Ivan. Humans waste words.

Book cover for “The One and Only Ivan,” by Katherine Applegate, who will talk and sign at the Tacoma Library Feb. 2 Tacoma Public Library Courtesy Ivan the gorilla passed away more than three ...

Bob first sauntered into readers’ hearts in Applegate’s “The One and Only Ivan,” a bestseller that won the Newbery Medal in 2013. The new book reunites BFFs Ivan, a gentle silverback ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The One and Only Ivan is bringing ... who in the book is quite more of a sort of 2D villain ...

Enter two streaming this weekend: “The One and Only Ivan,” a Disney+ film that brings heart and not much else to adapting a popular children’s book; and “The Sleepover,” Netflix’s ...

The One and Only Ivan writer Mike White has explained the biggest change from the book for the new Disney+ movie. Adapted from the bestselling children's book by Katherine Applegate, The One and ...

It was through the 1993 New York Times article “A Gorilla Sulks in a Mall as His Future is Debated” that the young adult and children's fiction author learned about Ivan, a silverback ...

While The One and Only Ivan isn’t a superhero movie, taking the book it’s based on, that has a younger audience, and adapting for screen is something that he approached with a certain ...

The studio goes down the Discovery Channel road again, albeit more successfully, with “The One and Only Ivan” on Disney+. The sweet film is not only based on the children’s book by Katherine ...

Katherine Applegate's "The One and Only Ivan" won the John Newbery Medal for the outstanding book of 2012, while Jon Klassen's "This Is Not My Hat" received the Randolph Caldecott Medal for ...