Jack 💜 reviewed The One and Only Ivan by Katherine A. Applegate
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5 stars
Utterly heartrending, and I couldn’t put it down.
Paperback, 320 pages
Polish language
Published Dec. 14, 2014 by Wydawnictwo CzyTam.
Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
Utterly heartrending, and I couldn’t put it down.
Will I ever not cry over a Katherine Applegate book? Probably not. Hype that I accidentally ended up reading this right before the movie release. Now I can watch it and complain about how it's different from the book!