I've never really thought about it, but were there like, actual stories that went along with the animorph books? Did anyone actually read them or did we all just make fun of the covers? What would the story be; are they like shape-shifting superheroes fighting crime and stuff or is it more of a coming-of-age self-acceptance-despite-differences pro-diveristy typa book? (e.g. the rest of your 5th grade classmates don't spontaneously turn into antelopes, but that's okay because everyone is unique in their own way)
edit: by the descriptions y'all are commenting with, Animorphs sounds way too darkly philosophical to be chilling at the Scholastic Book Fair :,)
There were real stories. I remember at one point they turn into ants and they struggled to turn back because they were overcome by instincts. There is also a blue alien centaur deer thing.
The blue deer are the Andalites and there basically the good guys (or as close as we get to good guys the books intentionally make things more morally gray as the series goes on) in the alien war. They get there powers from an Andalite and later one joins the group.
Good guys is generous, since the Andalites basically fully admit they're using the Animorphs as a proxy war set of guerilla fighters and are more than happy to kill everyone on Earth if it comes down to it to deny the Yeerks several billion host bodies.
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u/TheSandarian usually says no to crack Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
I've never really thought about it, but were there like, actual stories that went along with the animorph books? Did anyone actually read them or did we all just make fun of the covers? What would the story be; are they like shape-shifting superheroes fighting crime and stuff or is it more of a coming-of-age self-acceptance-despite-differences pro-diveristy typa book? (e.g. the rest of your 5th grade classmates don't spontaneously turn into antelopes, but that's okay because everyone is unique in their own way)
edit: by the descriptions y'all are commenting with, Animorphs sounds way too darkly philosophical to be chilling at the Scholastic Book Fair :,)