“One” is a picture book written and illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi. The story is about Blue, Blue liked doing many things and sometimes jumping in puddles. Blue met red and red made fun of him and made blue feel bad about being blue. Purple, Yellow, Green and Orange comforter Blue but never in front of Red. Red grew every time he said something mean. Red picked on all of the colours and made them feel bad. On day 1 came along and made all of the colours laugh and happy. Red yelled “stop laughing!” but 1 stood up straight and said “no”. The other colours, Purple, Yellow, Green and Orange became numbers like 1. Blue wanted to be a number to but Red came up to him and said “Red is hot, blue is not”, Blue said “No” and became 6. Red became very small, then 1 went up to red and said “red can count too”. In the end red became 7. I think one of the theme of the story was friendship since all of the colours bonded together at the end and all became friends. Another theme I think I see in the story is change since all of the colours changed into numbers. I think that this picture book would be directed to kids really young around the age of preschool or kindergarten since the moral of the story seems like something very young kids should learn at their age. I would rate this book 3 out of 5.

Ivan: The remarkable True Story of a Shopping Mall Gorilla is a picture book written by Katherine Applegate and illustrated by G. Brian Karas. The story is about a baby gorilla named Ivan that was taken from his home by poachers. The poachers sold Ivan to a shopping mall in acoma, Washington. Ivan lived at the mall for 27 years. At the mall Ivan was treated like a human, ate like a human, wore human clothes and Ivan learned things that a gorilla in the wild should never need to know. After a long time people started signing petitions to let Ivan free from his glass box in the mall. Ivan was sold to a zoo and was let free in a habitat with trees, grass and everything a wild gorilla should need. I think that this book can be directed to children of any age since the story is so interesting and a really cool story since it happened in real life. I think that the overall theme of the book is the unhappiness of Ivan and the freedom he felt at the end of the book. I don’t really see a message in the story, I think that its just s story about a gorilla trapped in a mall and let free after 27 years. I love that the book includes real pictures of Ivan at the end of the book. I would rate this book 4/5 starts since I think this story is really good but not as good as some of the other stories we’ve done.