All those things like skin color? Dogs could care less. You don’t see that with humans, obvious.y Constantly seeing differences where none exist. I run into a puggle, it”s Glad to meet ya, how’s it goin’, smelled any good pee lately?

But I’ll tell you one thing where we rule: tolerance.įor us, a dog is a dog is a dog. While I read and found myself laughing out loud at times, it was this passage that made me realize Bob’s view of the world was more than just sharing his story, it was words of wisdom from a smart little dog.ĭogs ain’t perfect. Bob shares his view of the world as only a dog could see it. While Applegate captured the voice of Ivan so brilliantly, she managed to capture the very different, but equally entertaining, voice of Bob perfectly. The entire story is told from his perspective. Julia’s dad has a job at the animal sanctuary where Ivan and Ruby now live and Julia and Bob are able to visit them often.īob is a tough little dog who had a rough life prior to living with Julia’s family. We begin “The One and Only Bob” with Bob living with Julia and her family.

One of the employees, whose daughter Julia often visited Ivan, Ruby, and Bob, takes Bob home and he becomes a part of their family. He remains at the mall with Ivan and Ruby, an elephant also held in a cage in the mall, until rescuers save the gorilla and elephant. He succeeds but also finds a friend in Ivan. In “The One and Only Ivan,” Bob, a stray dog, finds his way into the mall searching for food and squeezes himself into the gorilla cage to steal a piece of banana. When I first read it, it was my first encounter with a story in “first person gorilla” but Applegate managed to capture this trapped gorilla’s voice in a way that was both authentic and believable.

The story is told from Ivan’s perspective. If you haven’t read “The One and Only Ivan,” it is based on the true story of a gorilla named Ivan who spent over 20 years living in a cage in a shopping mall. Last week, Katherine Applegate released “The One and Only Bob” which follows Bob, the dog, from “The One and Only Ivan.” Ivan became one of my favorite characters and I wasn’t sure what to expect as we journeyed into Bob’s story.

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