Wow. This was an book I will never forget... The One and Only Ivan may be a simple book, but it's one of the most touching books I ever read in my life. It is about an gorilla, Ivan narrating his life in an zoo called the Big Top mall. The owner of the mall is Mack. Ivan was taken away when he was really small, so had no real memory of his past. Other animals that are also in the zoo are Stella, an old elephant with a infected leg, an dog (I forgot his name) who was Ivan's friend and a stray, and lastly, a newcomer, Ruby. Ruby still had an spirit, but Ivan knew that if Ruby stayed longer, her spirit would break, like Stella and him. As Stella gets weaker, Stella makes him promise to give Ruby an better place to live. Ivan tries him best to communicate with the humans using drawings, but will people understand? Read to find out.

this is a wonderful book, it touched my heart.its really sad.its about a gorilla named Ivan .Ivan`s parents died by our kind. his sister tag died after being capture. after this he is taken to a big top mall, where he meets Stella a elephant, bob a stray dog, Mack the owner(the one who captured him), George,the custodian, and Julia(George`s little girl.)soon they get a new elephant who is named ruby,people come to see them perform. soon reporters come to interview them, there is a secret when the animals don't obey, Mack uses a claw stick to hit them when people see this they protest .they say these animals belong in the wild,or in a zoo.soon they close the mall and Ivan,ruby and everyone else go to zoo ,but before that Stella dies because she use to work in a circus and her foot got hurt, so they sended her to the big top mall,but soon her foot got infected and she died.everyone is happy that these creatures are in a place they call home.

wow yup true