书名：The One and Only Ivan 独一无二的伊凡 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数570L
作者：Katherine Applegate
出版社名称：HarperCollins Children’s Books
出版时间：2015
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780007455331
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：208

在大猩猩伊凡他二十七岁的生命当中，只记得商城这个地方。这里有他喜欢的焦糖苹果、奶油爆米花，和那些像泡泡瀑布般的汽水。他对人类的目光习以为常，对人类的语言也了如指掌。但是，象宝宝露比的加入，逐渐唤醒了伊凡模糊的丛林记忆。当大象好友史黛拉因表演过度而逝世，老板麦克对年幼的露比挥舞着驯兽棍时，伊凡突然看清了这个“家”：生锈的钢铁围栏、冰冷生硬的水泥墙、日以继夜的表演似乎永无止境……
为了实践对史黛拉的承诺，伊凡试着突破金属围栏和厚重的玻璃，让露比前往一个值得被称为“家”的地方……伊凡该如何保护露比？可以自由奔跑的“家”，会是什么模样？
这本由凯瑟琳·艾波盖特著的The One and Only Ivan《独一无二的伊凡》根据一个真实的故事改编，荣获包括2013年纽伯瑞儿童文学金奖在内的多项童书大奖。本书为英文版，适合9岁及以上的儿童或青少年阅读。

推荐理由：
1.《独一无二的伊凡》取材于真实的故事，能引起情感上的共鸣；
2. 可以教导孩子热爱自然，保护动物，尊重每一种生命；
3. 故事感人，充满着动物之间、动物与人之间的温情，值得每一个人品读；
4. 采用叙事散文诗的格式创作，形式新颖，文字简洁真切；
5. 英文原版，印刷清晰，纸质护眼，字体、行间距较大。
媒体评价：
这是一本文词优美、字字珠玑、充满勇气的作品。它使读者反思人类和动物的关系，它将会改变你的一生。
——纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖作家 佩特莉霞·麦克拉伦
伊凡让你读来心碎，但读下去，他又会将你的心慢慢愈合如此温柔的动物小说实属罕见，为伊凡和他的伙伴们感动雀跃，也为人性中可贵的部分和与生俱来的责任感庆贺，
——纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖作家 盖瑞·施密特
艾波盖特在人类对待动物，尤其是在对待那些被捕获而失去自由的动物的方式上发出了她强有力的声音：每种生物，都需要一个安全的、可以被称作“家”的地方，
——《学校图书馆杂志》重点推荐

Winner of the Newbery Medal 2013
Inspired by a true story, this is the beautifully written tale of how a mighty gorilla wins his freedom. A winning blend of humour and poignancy that will appeal to fans of Michael Morpurgo.
Ivan is an easy-going gorilla who has spent his life performing for the crowds at the Exit 8 shopping mall. He rarely misses life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly thinks about it at all. But everything changes when a baby elephant called Ruby arrives and Ivan realises he must find a new life for them both. Told from Ivan’s perspective this is a stand-out novel with a pertinent message for readers of 9+.
Review
“Will capture readers’ hearts and never let go. A must have.”—School Library Journal“Animal-loving youngsters and their adults will find plenty of food for thought in Ivan’s extraordinary story.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Exemplifies everything youngsters need to know about courage.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Discover an animal hero that will take his place with other courageous and beloved animals such as Babe, Mrs. Frisby, Charlotte and Wilbur. Adults reading this aloud with children will find it just as rewarding.”—Shelf Awareness
“Important.”—The Horn Book

伊凡是一只好脾气的成年大猩猩，他从还是猩猩宝宝时就住在商城，是这里的大明星。他早已习惯人类驻足的目光，习惯闪光灯和指指点点的手指头。他喜欢气泡瀑布般的汽水，喜欢朝人类丢他的粪球，但他很喜欢画画，认为自己是个艺术家。
天真可爱的小象露比的到来，唤醒了伊凡对丛林的模糊记忆。他忽然意识到这里只是个牢笼，并不是真正的家。当大象好友因没有得到及时治疗而去世，当商城老板的尖爪棍向不愿表演的露比挥起时，伊凡愤怒了！他要履行对朋友的承诺，他要帮露比逃离这里，前往一个值得被称为“家”的地方！
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living in a shopping mall, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting.
Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.

凯瑟琳·艾波盖特，为儿童和青少年创作了很多本书，包括图画书《巴法罗风暴》以及桥梁书《瑞利的规则》系列等。她的小说《勇敢者之家》曾获得金风筝小说奖、乔塞特·弗兰克儿童小说奖，以及纪念朱迪·洛佩兹图书奖荣誉奖。她还获得过由《出版者周刊》颁发的“新儿童系列图书奖”。她与丈夫共同创作的科幻小说《动物变种人》系列全球畅销，销量超过3500万本。
在美国图书馆协会颁布的2013年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖结果中，她于2012年出版的小说《独一无二的伊凡》获得了很高荣誉。
Katherine Applegate’s many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Katherine was inspired to writeThe One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He was a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation’s largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan was well known for his paintings, which he “signed” with a thumbprint.
Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.

hello
I am Ivan. I am a gorilla.
It’s not as easy as it looks.
names
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. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot.
Everyone knows the peels are the best part.
I suppose you think gorillas can’t understand you. Of course, you also probably think we can’t walk upright.
Try knuckle walking for an hour. You tell me: Which way is more fun?
patience
I’ve learned to understand human words over the years, but understanding human speech is not the same as understanding humans.
Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.
It took me some time to recognize all those human sounds, to weave words into things. But I was patient.
Patient is a useful way to be when you’re an ape.
Gorillas are as patient as stones. Humans, not so much.
how I look
I used to be a wild gorilla, and I still look the part.
I have a gorilla’s shy gaze, a gorilla’s sly smile. I wear a snowy saddle of fur, the uniform of a silverback. When the sun warms my back, I cast a gorilla’s majestic shadow.
In my size humans see a test of themselves. They hear fighting words on the wind, when all I’m thinking is how the late-day sun reminds me of a ripe nectarine.
I’m mightier than any human, four hundred pounds of pure power. My body looks made for battle. My arms, outstretched, span taller than the tallest human.
My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.
I know this is troubling.
I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.
Chimps. There’s no excuse for them.
the exit 8 big top mall and video arcade
I live in a human habitat called the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. We are conveniently located off I-95, with shows at two, four, and seven, 365 days a year.
Mack says that when he answers the trilling telephone.
Mack works here at the mall. He is the boss.
I work here too. I am the gorilla.
At the Big Top Mall, a creaky-music carousel spins all day, and monkeys and parrots live amid the merchants. In the middle of the mall is a ring with benches where humans can sit on their rumps while they eat soft pretzels. The floor is covered with sawdust made of dead trees.
My domain is at one end of the ring. I live here because I am too much gorilla and not enough human.
Stella’s domain is next to mine. Stella is an elephant. She and Bob, who is a dog, are my dearest friends.
At present, I do not have any gorilla friends.
My domain is made of thick glass and rusty metal and rough cement. Stella’s domain is made of metal bars. The sun bears’ domain is wood; the parrots’ is wire mesh.
Three of my walls are glass. One of them is cracked, and a small piece, about the size of my hand, is missing from its bottom corner. I made the hole with a baseball bat Mack gave me for my sixth birthday. After that he took the bat away, but he let me keep the baseball that came with it.
A jungle scene is painted on one of my domain walls. It has a waterfall without water and flowers without scent and trees without roots. I didn’t paint it, but I enjoy the way the shapes flow across my wall, even if it isn’t much of a jungle.
I am lucky my domain has three windowed walls. I can see the whole mall and a bit of the world beyond: the frantic pinball machines, the pink billows of cotton candy, the vast and treeless parking lot.
Beyond the lot is a freeway where cars stampede without end. A giant sign at its edge beckons them to stop and rest like gazelles at a watering hole.