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 ...

Above: See what happened when "The One and Only Ivan" co-star Danny DeVito came home to Asbury Park. Katherine Applegate is ready for the world to meet “The One and Only Ivan.” It was through ...

Inspired by a true story, Applegate (Home of the Brave) offers a haunting tale told from the perspective of Ivan, a silverback gorilla who has been confined to a small “domain” of concrete ...

‘‘Kids really wanted a book about Bob,” said Katherine Applegate of “The One and Only Bob,” her new novel about a tiny, tough-talking dog. Bob first sauntered into readers’ hearts in ...

Katherine Applegate has made a specialty of mining ... of a squalid shopping-mall tourist destination (“The One and Only Ivan”). In Applegate’s 2013 Newbery Medal winner, the title character ...

“In response to this, I am so happy that we can share Katherine Applegate’s delightful and original story, ‘The One and Only Ivan’ with the world this August on Disney+, bringing some joy ...

With this stellar sequel to her Newbery Award–winning The One and Only Ivan, Applegate sounds precisely balanced notes of genuine humor and heart-tugging tenderness through the voice of Ivan’s ...

Mike White wrote the script adapting the award-winning Katherine Applegate book ... the book centers on a silverback gorilla named Ivan who lives in a cage in a shopping mall along with an ...

ExploreIvan the gorilla of Zoo Atlanta dies As we learn in the children’s book “The One and Only Ivan,” by Katherine Applegate, Ivan is strong, sensitive and patient. “Patient is a useful ...