Anonymous
05/30/2024 15:19
Subject: Re:The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is the best place to put this, but please settle this hot family debate.
For those who don't know, it's a kid's book and the main character is a gorilla named Ivan who lives in a little circus in the mall. He observes humans shopping at the mall. He says "They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again." This is dollar bills, right?
He says, "They spin pink clouds you can eat." So that is cotton candy....
But what is THIS:
"They build domains with flat waterfalls."
What do you think?
Paintings of waterfalls. Ivan lives in a cage with painted waterfalls on the walls. Great book BTW.
Actually, I think the PP from the first page had it right. I think it's windows. They built a habitat with glass floor to ceiling windows for the patrons to observe the animals, so he looks out the windows back at the patrons.
Anonymous
05/30/2024 14:25
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Anyone else remember those square water features at fair oaks mall in the 90s that occasionally someone would sit on not realizing it was very smooth flowing water and not shiny rock?
Those were my first thought
Those were my first thought
Anonymous
05/30/2024 10:43
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Omg ppl guessing skyscrapers and toilets. Don’t answer if you never read the book!
The answer was explained pages ago — it’s a jungle mural painted in his cage. A painting of a waterfall.
And yes, it is a very sad book. Heartbreaking. And based on a real story too.
The answer was explained pages ago — it’s a jungle mural painted in his cage. A painting of a waterfall.
And yes, it is a very sad book. Heartbreaking. And based on a real story too.
Anonymous
05/29/2024 14:20
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
That book is DEPRESSING.
Anonymous
02/08/2024 04:33
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Toilet? When you flush, you get a flat waterfall?
Anonymous
02/08/2024 04:31
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Bathtub. Faucet. Swimming pool.
Anonymous
02/07/2024 22:14
Subject: Re:The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
IMO -- It's a painted waterfall on the scenery panted at the mall / zoo. To make it look like a jungle. To Ivan, it's like, what's the point of that?
I love that series. I read it with my kids a few years ago.
I love that series. I read it with my kids a few years ago.
Anonymous
02/07/2024 20:37
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Anonymous wrote:You have too much time on your hands.
+1 Bahahahahah! You win the Internet.
Anonymous
02/07/2024 15:48
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Anonymous wrote:You have too much time on your hands.
God forbid someone is curious and seeks answers.
I hope you don’t shut down your kids like this.
Anonymous
02/05/2024 20:31
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Is this a sad book?
Anonymous
02/05/2024 17:10
Subject: Re:The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
i think them mean a wall because they say a flat waterfall
Anonymous
05/04/2023 13:01
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Windows.
If it was swimming pools then he’d know it as a pond or lake.
If it was swimming pools then he’d know it as a pond or lake.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 12:28
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
I agree that it’s a picture of a waterfall.
We also read applegate’s book about a tree- I can’t think of the name of it, but I was sobbing at the end. It so, so good.
We also read applegate’s book about a tree- I can’t think of the name of it, but I was sobbing at the end. It so, so good.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 12:22
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is the best place to put this, but please settle this hot family debate.
For those who don't know, it's a kid's book and the main character is a gorilla named Ivan who lives in a little circus in the mall. He observes humans shopping at the mall. He says "They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again." This is dollar bills, right?
He says, "They spin pink clouds you can eat." So that is cotton candy....
But what is THIS:
"They build domains with flat waterfalls."
What do you think?
Paintings of waterfalls. Ivan lives in a cage with painted waterfalls on the walls. Great book BTW.
Yup, and it has flowers without scents and tress without roots. The picture of the jungle -- as opposed to the real thing -- is clearly doing nothing for him.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 12:08
Subject: The One and Only Ivan - what does this mean?
Sounds like a house with a swimming pool.