The Ape Star

In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who owns a junkyard, and a surprising friendship grows between them.

A dirty old Volvo pulls up in front of the orphanage and out steps a gorilla. She’s as thick as a barrel with a head like an overgrown pear. Of all the orphanage’s fifty-one children, it is Jonna who, to her horror, is chosen by the gorilla. She had been dreaming of a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume, and now she’s going to live in a junkyard. Eventually Jonna and the gorilla start to get along, until a man from the council threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.

The Ape Star is a heartwarming and unconventional chapter book about, adoption, friendship, prejudice, poverty and seeing from different perspectives.

Sales Points

• Combines emotional truth with very funny dialogue and characterization
• Themes of economic hardship and outsiders told with sympathy and humour
• Cover and artwork from the animated adaption starring Stellan Skarsgård (Thor Ragnarok, Mamma Mia) showing worldwide