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To keep reading, subscribe-subscriptions begin at $4.95-or log in. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family. This article is available to Christian Century magazine subscribers only. Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. In 1994, Ivan was moved to a wildlife preserve, where he enjoyed good care and relative freedom until his death in 2012. The real Ivan, born in Africa, “spent the first 27 years of his life in a shopping mall in Washington State,” Applegate notes. Ivan is told through the eyes of a fictional gorilla whose life parallels that of an actual gorilla. Now Applegate has published a sequel, The One and Only Bob, which has already started to win the kind of acclaim bestowed on Ivan. This summer, Disney+ released a full-length movie version. The following year it won the Newbery Medal, and since then it has chalked up another half million sales. Ivan alone sold more than half a million copies within a year of its publication. She has authored or coauthored more than 150 best-selling children’s books. When I pressed for more, he paused a moment, then added, “Ivan knows how it feels when a friend dies.” Katherine Applegate may not be America’s greatest living writer, but countless children and parents would say that she is one of them. Ivan, who is a gorilla, has “real emotions,” he explained. Without hesitation, he said The One and Only Ivan. He reminds me of all the great friends I had growing up who were bigger and stronger than me, but just wanted to have fun and be goofballs and cared dearly about each other and would protect me always. I recently asked my 11-year-old grandson, Nicholas, who is a serious reader, what his favorite book is.
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