The "One and only Ivan" is a novel by Katherine Applegate. In this book Ivan is a silverback gorilla who lives in a circus that moves around from place to place. Ivan has a lot of friends in the circus he epically likes a elephant names Stella and a dog named bob. When the owner buys a new elephant name Ruby Stella takes care of her because Ruby's mom is not there to care for her but soon after Stella gets an infection in her foot and Mack (the owner) never calls the vet. And so Stella gets worse and eventually dies.
Before Stella passed Ivan promised to take care of Ruby. Ivan didn't quite realize what he had gotten into but he takes care of Ruby well. One day the janitors daughter Julia gave Ivan a strange gift he had never seen before: finger paints, and he gets an idea. He makes a picture and gives it to Julia and she takes it to the advertising people and they post it around everywhere mostly on billboards.
Reporters come from EVERYWHERE to see Ivan and his paintings. They take pictures of Ivan and Ruby and all of the zoo. But then Ivan realizes that a woman is trying to take him to a zoo and "maybe... It's good maybe it's not" He thought. They were taken and Ivan is put in a cage that is small but clean. When they get to their destination he sees other silverback Gorillas and in time he goes out with the other gorillas and the zoo woman shows Ruby with a new family of elephants and she looks happy.
Before Stella passed Ivan promised to take care of Ruby. Ivan didn't quite realize what he had gotten into but he takes care of Ruby well. One day the janitors daughter Julia gave Ivan a strange gift he had never seen before: finger paints, and he gets an idea. He makes a picture and gives it to Julia and she takes it to the advertising people and they post it around everywhere mostly on billboards.
Reporters come from EVERYWHERE to see Ivan and his paintings. They take pictures of Ivan and Ruby and all of the zoo. But then Ivan realizes that a woman is trying to take him to a zoo and "maybe... It's good maybe it's not"
He thought. They were taken and Ivan is put in a cage that is small but clean. When they get to their destination he sees other silverback Gorillas and in time he goes out with the other gorillas and the zoo woman shows Ruby with a new family of elephants and she looks happy.