In the first few books Tobias stays in morph for longer than the two-hour limit and is stuck forever as a red-tailed hawk. I remember Animorphs being fairly traumatic, but kind of thought the traumatic stuff would ease its way in as the books progress. Also, the whole first-person ‘talking to the reader’ thing at the start of each book is pretty cringe. Note: I will not be reading the “companion” books, like Alternamorphs or Megamorphs, because they are stupid. I then made a giant pile of Animorphs books on one side of my bed and read the entire series over the course of five harrowing days. So, when I saw someone selling their entire Animorphs collection on Trade Me for $100, I bought it up, lickety-split. A selection of the many, many Animorphs books Also, because they look trashy no adult is going to read them to tell you you shouldn’t be. One of the things I remember liking most about Animorphs, was that while everyone assumes they’re for small kids, they’re incredibly dark. I ordered every one individually into our community library, pissing off a lot of librarians in the process. When I was a child I got into Animorphs in a big way. The group, the Animorphs, become guerilla (and gorilla) resistance fighters against the Yeerk invasion. Morphing is the ability to turn into any creature you touch, although for a maximum of two hours at a time.

Applegate about a group of teenagers who learn about a parasitic alien race, the Yeerks, secretly taking over the earth and simultaneously gain the ability to ‘morph’ from a different alien race, the Andalites, who do not like the Yeerks.

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Remember Animorphs? The book where children turn into animals and save the world? Charlie O’Mannin does – because he read all 54 of them in five days.

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