K. A. Applegate
Autore di L'unico e insuperabile Ivan
Sull'Autore
Katherine Applegate was born in Michigan on July 19, 1956. She writes science fiction, young adult romances, and pop-up books. She is the author of the Making Waves, Making Out, and Roscoe Riley Rules series. She writes the Animorphs, Everworld, and Remnants series under the pen name K. A. mostra altro Applegate. She also writes under the pen names of C. Archer, Catherine Kendall and Elizabeth Benning. She has received numerous awards including a Golden Duck Award (Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades) for The Message in 1997, the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award for Home of the Brave, and the 2013 Newbery Medal and the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Illinois) for The One and Only Ivan. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: K. A. Applegate. Photo by flickr use lknm4.
Serie
Opere di K. A. Applegate
Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (Summer) (2008) 119 copie
Disney's Christmas With All the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends (1994) 19 copie
Newbery Award Favorite Library 8 Book Box Set : Charlotte's Web, The One and Only Ivan, Ella Enchanted, Dragonwings (2020) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Ivan & Friends Paperback 2-Book Box Set: The One and Only Ivan, The One and Only Bob (Ivan and Friends) (2022) 6 copie
Roscoe Riley Rules 4 Books in 1!: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs; Never Swipe a Bully's Bear; Don't Swap Your… (2016) 5 copie
ANIMORPHS: MEGAMORPHS, 4 Volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4: The Andalite's Gift / In the Time of Dinosaurs / Elfangor's… (2000) 3 copie
Animorphs: The Weakness 3 copie
Animorphs Series (5) :#34 #35 #36 37,#38: The Other - The Mutation - The Journey - The Proposal - The Weakness - The… (2000) 2 copie
Der unvergleichliche Ivan 2 copie
Animorphs Complete Series 2 copie
The Mutation/The Proposal/The Prophecy/The Conspiracy/The Illusion/The Separation (Animorphs) (2000) 2 copie
All 12 Everworld: Search for Senna, Land of Loss, Enter the Enchanted, Realm of Reaper, Discover Destroyer, Fear the… (1999) 2 copie
Endling - Die neue Zeit: Spannende Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 11 (Die Endling-Trilogie, Band 3) (2021) 2 copie
Animorphs: the invasion 2 copie
Rubra, A Árvore dos Desejos 2 copie
L'albero dei due mondi 1 copia
Animorphs Series Boxed Set 1 copia
Explore the World's of K.A. Applegate: Animorphs, 1: The Invasion, Everworlds, 1: Search for Senna, Remnants, 1: The… (2002) 1 copia
Ever World 1 copia
Animorphs The Sacrifices (Everyone has nightmares. But what happend when the nightmares are real?) (2001) 1 copia
Inseguiti dagli Hetwan 1 copia
Animorphs: Volumes 49 Thru 52: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (2000) 1 copia
The Animorphs series 1 copia
Animorphs- Now, He's One of Them 1 copia
Girl Talk : The Bookshop Mystery 1 copia
Animorphs Set 19-22 (#19 - The Departure, #20 - The Discovery, #21 - The Threat, #22 - The Solution) (1998) 1 copia
Duel Animorphs 26 1 copia
Animorphus Series 38 Titles! 1 copia
La Décision (Animorphs, No. 18) 1 copia
Ennemi 1 copia
S.O.S. per il grande mago 1 copia
Animorphs- Trust no one 1 copia
Animorphs Set #35-39 The Proposal, The Mutation, The Weakness, The Arrival, The Hidden (1999) 1 copia
L'inganno del mago 1 copia
Animorphs Book Set 1 copia
animorphs what's on your mind... 1 copia
Animorphs Boxset: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (Animorphs, #49-52) 1 copia
Animorphs: The First Journal 1 copia
Animorphs Boxset: The Familiar / The Journey / The Test / The Unexpected (Animorphs, #41-44) 1 copia
White Fang 1 copia
Land of the Lost 1 copia
Animorphs The Message 1 copia
Old Moore's Horoscopes and Daily Astral Diaries: Aquarius (Old Moore's 2001 horoscope) (2000) 1 copia
Everworld, troisième intégrale 1 copia
Copacul dorintelor 1 copia
Book One: Ending 1 copia
Animorphs The Andalite's Gift 1 copia
Tas vienintelis Aivenhas 1 copia
Animorphs the Departure 1 copia
Everworld intégrale 1 copia
Il regno dei folletti 1 copia
Everworld, deuxième intégrale 1 copia
Der Kampf beginnt 1. 1 copia
Endling, The last, Book 1 1 copia
The invasion 1 copia
Don’t Tap Dance On Your Teacher 1 copia
Opere correlate
The One and Only Ivan [2020 film] — Original book — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Applegate, Katherine Alice
- Altri nomi
- Applegate, Katherine
Archer, C.
Benning, Elizabeth
Blair, L.E.
Kendall, Katherine
Kincaid, Beth (mostra tutto 11)
Michaels, Katherine
Plumb, A.R.
Pollari, Pat
Stephens, Nicholas
Young, Alida E - Data di nascita
- 1956-07-19
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Michigan, USA
Texas, USA
Florida, USA
Irvine, California, USA
Minnesota, USA (mostra tutto 8)
Illinois, USA
Pelago, Italy - Relazioni
- Grant, Michael (husband) (4)
- Breve biografia
- Katherine Applegate is the author of The One and Only Ivan, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal. Her novel Crenshaw spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times children's bestseller list, and her first middle-grade stand-alone novel, the award-winning Home of the Brave, continues to be included on state reading lists, summer reading lists, and class reading lists.
Katherine has written three picture books: The Buffalo Storm; The Remarkable True Story of Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla (often used as a companion book to The One and Only Ivan for younger readers); and Sometimes You Fly (publishing in spring, 2018). For beginning readers, Katherine wrote Roscoe Riley Rules, a seven-book series.
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote Animorphs, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide.
Katherine lives in Marin County, California, with her family and assorted pets.
Utenti
Discussioni
80s-90s preteen series fic; mismatched gal pals; tough girl Roxie or Randi w/ black spiky hair; pink in Name that Book (Giugno 2013)
YA Science fiction novel in Name that Book (Agosto 2010)
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Five star books (4)
READ in 2024 (1)
Books Read in 2019 (62)
2010s (1)
Favorite Series (1)
Female Author (1)
Science Fiction (1)
KID BOOKS (2)
Books to Chapel (3)
Newbery Adjacent (7)
1990s (8)
Cats in Fiction (2)
Ocean Setting (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 433
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 72,334
- Popolarità
- #174
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1,364
- ISBN
- 1,980
- Lingue
- 25
- Preferito da
- 42
There are some books which grab you with pace, some with situation, some with falling elephants (see under Terry Pratchett). Few do it with voice, and even fewer do it with the voice of a gorilla.
I've always found voice tricky to adequately explain. This may be because it is exactly what it sounds like. Just as you can recognize people by the sound of their voice, you can recognize a good writer or narrator by the tone, the feel, of their words. For this, if for no other reason, Katherine Applegate earned her Newbery Medal. Gorilla though he may be, within pages, there is no doubt that you are listening to a story told by Ivan (the one and only).
Ivan is a silverback gorilla who lives in the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, sharing this preposterous situation with an elephant or two, a stray dog named Bob, and a smattering of other animals. Where some people might expect a gorilla narrator to run something like "Me Ivan, you Jane," Applegate's primate is articulate and emotive and sounds for all the world like an ape raised by humans, which is exactly what he is. Ivan, I suppose, is the anti-Tarzan in that respect.
In passages like this, Applegate captures the peacefulness of a gorilla at rest, mixing in a humor that suits him well. There is a tension present, however, born of Ivan's environment. At first, only the reader is aware of the dissonance, but gradually Ivan's contentment is disturbed to the point of action. As he shakes off his lethargy, he attempts to grow into his hoary mantle and, to some extent, he succeeds. To really become a gorilla, though, and not just a sideshow attraction, will require a difficult cost.
The ending, when it comes, is devoid of the bittersweet flavor which almost seems a requirement with an animal main character. It's not the happy-go-lucky conclusion you might wish for Ivan and company, but it is heartfelt and real and satisfying. Throughout, the book is artfully written, full of well-balanced character development, and sometimes downright hilarious. Don't let the Newberry fool you; this is one well worth anyone's time.
P.S. Don't skip the "author's note" at the end. It'll blow your mind.
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