I still have my copy. Love Coville’s books.
Also he’s really responsive on social media and a super nice guy if you ever want to say hello.
Oh, one other thing: If you love Coville, you should read some Henry Neff. Another fantastic author and super nice person.
It’s really good to hear that he still stands up as a person.
KA Applegate too.She does? I haven’t heard any reference to her since the fantasy series she started mid-Animorphs. What’s she doing now?
Being the anti Rowling that the world needs.
Applegate and Grant say trans rights!They’ve started putting out graphic novels of Animorphs, so if you know any young readers, it’s a great place to kindle a new love of the series.
How young?
More accessible because of the pictures, but the tone and content seem like a good match. Maybe a couple of years younger than the originals were for?
Okay, thanks! Just wanted to know if I should get them for my kid.
I really enjoyed My Teacher Flunked The Planet. I’ve got to go reread it. I feel like it might be topical.
Omg I loved this book and a bunch of others by this author! Gotta see if they sell DRM free epubs somewhere so my kids can enjoy them.
What a pleasant blast from the past. Thanks OP!
They’re all on Z-Lib, so they should be purchaseable somewhere.
People rip epubs all the time, them being on zlib doesn’t necessarily mean drm free versions are available for purchase sadly
Thank you for bringing this memory back! Absolute banger art and book!
I loved these books as a kid. One of them had a line in it that really stuck with me:
“When technology advances, the technology to fool it advances too. There’s a nice balance in that, don’t you think?”
I remember when books like these were offered on portable red, blue, and yellow shelves. Talking about the Scholastic book faires that would come to school in the 1980s. I don’t remember what the colours represented, but I remember the colours clearly and I don’t recall any green, purple, pink, black, white, or orange shelves, just those three colours, so I imagine they meant something. But I looked at everything.
I think I also got “The House With a Clock in its Walls,” the cat vampire one, the vegetable vampire one (I forget the names), “Tom’s Midnight Garden”, and other school-friendly/age appropriate YA horror, before I discovered Stephen King and Dean Koontz. (And then I never looked at YA again, until the Harry Potter books started coming out. I’m still reading Sword Art Online, which is YA from Japan; they call it LN, or Light Novels, over there, but, same thing.)
The vegetable vampire one was Bunnicula!
I meant bunny, not cat, but you’re right. The one I remember — the name just randomly came to me — was The Celery Stalks at Midnight. Turns out it’s from the same series. I didn’t realise it was a series, I just remember the books.
Bunnicula?!
This cover sparked a memory for “Fat Men from Space” which was a book in a similar vein.
It’s funny to me how so much of our media back then featured alien takeovers that only the kids had discovered.
I thought that was from Sluggy Freelance.
I’m pretty sure they meant grade/reading level. You were encouraged to pick from your own, but it wasn’t enforced.
Reminds me of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Also “They Live”.
Oh my god I forgot about this! What an absolute banger!
I remember coming across this in the elementary school library! Thanks for the quick nostalgia trip.
Reeeeeally looks like 1980s Trump. Release the UFO files!
I thought he was stabbing himself in the neck with a large parsnip until I zoomed in.
I used to love these books in fourth and fifth grade. I could read one in about a Thursday/Friday before the weekend, which I had to do and then write an essay on in order to get my super Nintendo controller back. There were so many of these and they were kind of dumb but they took place in our real world which made it feel like a more plausible fantasy.
