#1 New York Times bestseller! Katherine Applegate, THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
#1 New York Times bestseller! Powerhouse children’s writer and Newbery Award-winner Katherine Applegate joins Zibby to discuss THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY, the poignant, delightful, and heartbreaking final installment in the quartet that began with THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN—the story of the world’s favorite silverback gorilla. Katherine reveals the inspiration behind this iconic series and then delves into the themes of family and parenthood through the eyes of her animal characters. She also talks about her writing process—including extensive research into the animal world—and her career, from ghostwriting for Disney to co-writing the Animorphs series with her husband.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, |
| 0:19.5 | reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.4 | Catherine Applegate is the author of the one and only family. |
| 0:35.7 | Catherine is the Newberry medal winning and a number one New York |
| 0:38.8 | Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers, including the one and only series, |
| 0:44.4 | the ending series, Crenshaw, Wish Tree, the Rosco Riley Rules chapter book series, and the Animorph series. |
| 0:51.5 | She lives with her family in Nevada. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much for coming |
| 0:56.0 | on moms don't have time to read books to discuss the one and only family. Congratulations. |
| 1:01.3 | Oh, thank you. I am so delighted to be here. Oh. Okay. So tell everybody what is this, |
| 1:08.5 | this is the final installment, right? right this you're not going past here or |
| 1:11.9 | should i not say no no this is it this is it okay okay tell everybody what what the book is about |
| 1:17.1 | please well you know this is a continuation of a what it's now become a four book quartet guess you'd call it, that started with the one and only |
| 1:30.0 | Ivan, which many people have realized at this point was based on a true story. There really |
| 1:36.3 | wasn't Ivan Gorilla, who ended up, of all things, in Tacoma, Washington, in the middle of a |
| 1:42.7 | mall, and spent 27 awful years there. |
| 1:46.4 | So I fictionalized that story and eventually expanded upon it. |
| 1:52.0 | We had the one-only Bob. |
| 1:53.6 | Bob is a very sarcastic, charming dog who was voiced by Danny DeVito in the movie, |
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