How did it happen that the Scholastic factory, grinding out book after book after book, squeezed out a diamond amidst the coal? What made Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco, and Tobias leap off the page and stay with us forever? I’m about to get a graduate degree in fiction and I still don’t know how that part works. “ The mystery of Animorphs is not why it’s been forgotten, but how it managed to be so good in the first place. Want to know more about the series? There’s a beautiful retrospective here which also mentions many critiques and analyses of the series as a whole: You can also find hard copies of several volumes at RML. The full series is available online via this link. Here are some of her books that we have available at the library: RML librarians have very different reading tastes from one another, but somehow we all love this author. This gives her books a sort of timeless quality, which may be why even her older work holds up so well. After years of writing about kids going on secret missions while turned into the many animals of Animorphs, Applegate has continued to write books from unusual points of view, with books narrated by a gorrilla, a dog, and even a tree.
The One and only Ivan, Wishtree, The Home of the Brave–her middle grade books have been nominated for all manner of awards and been beloved by teachers and librarians alike, not to mention readers. ( You can read many of the books for free on the Internet Archive with the author’s blessing.)īut the hugely successful Animorphs series is not the only thing Applegate has accomplished. It was pretty intense for a middle grade series, but holds up surprisingly well to this day. If you or someone you know grew up in the late nineties, you probably know this author from her wildly popular Animorphs series about a handful of kids and their alien friend saving the world from body-snatching alien invaders by transforming into animals. She lives with her husband, who writes as the author Michael Grant, and their children in California.
Katherine Applegate is the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers, including The One and Only Ivan, the Endling series, Crenshaw, Wishtree, the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter books series, and the Animorphs series.
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