![]() But Katherine and Michael weren’t working alone. That’s a lot of material, even for a two-person writing team. Lesh51, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0īetween 19, Scholastic released the 54 books that make up the core Animorphs series. ![]() Fifty-four books were published in five years. Katherine wrote the Endling trilogy and the Ivan & Friends books for young readers, and Michael is the author of the YA series The Gone. Both halves of the couple are writers with separate careers outside of the Animorphs universe. She co-wrote the books with her husband Michael Grant under the pen name K.A. Many fans know Katherine Applegate as the author of Animorphs, but she created the series as part of a team. Whether you devoured every word of the books or just thumbed through the mini flipbooks in the corners of the pages, here’s everything you need to know about the sci-fi saga. ![]() ![]() The series was inescapable in the late 1990s, and it’s still relevant today: The 2020s have given us a new series of Animorphs graphic novels, and a movie based on the franchise is in the works. They must use their shapeshifting abilities to protect the Earth from the Yeerks, another species of alien that crawls into people’s ears to control their brains.Įven if you don’t know the extensive lore of the Animorphs universe, you’ve likely seen the evocative covers. ![]() The children’s book opens with blue centaur-like aliens giving human children the power to transform into any animal they touch. In 1996, Scholastic published The Invasion, the first installment in the Animorphs series. ![]()
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