“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.