The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only Ivan, #1)

by Katherine Applegate

Humans don’t always seem to recognize what I’ve drawn. They squint,

cock their heads, murmur. I’ll draw a banana, a perfectly lovely banana, and they’ll say, “It’s a yellow airplane!” or “It’s a duck without wings!”

Someday, I hope I can draw the way Julia draws, imagining worlds that don’t yet exist.

hand. At times like that, I wish humans could understand me the way I can understand them. It’s not so bad, I wanted to tell the little boy. With enough time, you can

We don’t have much in common, but we have enough. We are huge and alone, and we both love yogurt raisins.