The book “One” is a very meaningful story written and illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi. This story starts off with the colour blue being made fun of for not being as hot as him, and for the longest time blue put up with those rude ignorant comments from red. Blue felt jealous he wished he could be different but everyone around him told him otherwise, he was beginning to feel really sad and embarrassed about his colour. But one day he was getting made fun of by red when all the other colours around him started standing up for him and not putting up with reds rude comments and blue felt better about himself, he had friends and he was different. Overall this story is written for ages 1- 10 because it shares a message which shows the kids its okay to be different and how you shouldn’t make fun of people.

“Ivan: the remarkable true story of the shopping mall gorilla” is a truly inspiring story righten by Katherine Applegate and illustrated G. Brian Karas. The book starts off with Ivan and another baby female gorilla were captured by poachers and shipped to a family. From there he learned how to do human things that Gorillas would never have to learn, like ride a motorcycle and go to baseball games and other human activities. But soon he was shipped off to a mall and but captivated in a little box with Burma but shortly after Burma was dramatized and sadly passed away. After 27 years in the mall, people started protesting to free Ivan and send him to natural safer animals with other gorillas. So the mall decided to ship Ivan to the Atlantic Zoo and that’s when he lived his last years with other gorillas in a natural safe environs until he was 50 years of age. The theme of this book is to let people know that everyone has feeling and even animals deserve to live a peaceful and safe life. I think that book has an overall great message and a really meaningful said story describing to metal abuse of animals and why they deserve better. This story is written for all ages because it is important to understand the struggles of animals kept captive.