Notes from Dr. Borkosky

By stages, a floppy-haired nineties white boy became a jaguar (Book 11); a pretty black girl became a butterfly (Book 19); a statuesque blonde became a giant squid (Book 27). Loving the Animorphs has never stopped being faintly embarrassing. I still can’t decide whether Cassie, the idealistic pacifist, was brave or naive for sympathizing with the Yeerks and occasionally trying to compromise with them.

However, what really got to me was the main villains, the Yeerks. [19], Tobias was approached by a solicitor claiming to represent his father, who told him that an unknown cousin of his, Aria, wanted to take care of him. Animorphs gave us the nightmarish puppetmaster Yeerks, the Taxxons, insane-with-hunger giant centipedes (who are also cannibals and will eat themselves if they are injured/hungry enough—and they're always hungry), and the Hork-Bajir, benign but enslaved bladed lizard men (who started out as mooks but turned out to be really sympathetic), as well as morphing in general and the terror at getting stuck in … (Jean Guerrero of LitHub admits to believing, as a child, that the books were nonfiction.). Cassie, as the only uninfected Animorph, worked with the Yeerk Peace Movement to free Aftran from the Yeerk pool, where she was to be interrogated and executed by Visser Three.

Using dolphin morphs, they investigated, and discovered the crashed dome of an Andalite Dome ship, sunk under the ocean.

Although initially reluctant to fight against what he believed to be "insane" odds, Marco was nonetheless loyal and courageous in battle. Jake's cousin. Read earlier installments of YA of Yore here. A few weeks after receiving their powers, Cassie and Tobias started receiving visions of an Andalite calling to them from beneath the ocean. If you flipped the pages quickly, you could make the transformation occur and un-occur via crude flip-book illustrations on the bottom right corner of every page. His brother Tom was a Controller, which gave Jake a very personal reason to fight against the Yeerks. They were made to be disposable. What weren’t they about? If you’d already judged the books by their covers, their premise was unlikely to change your mind. They accomplished this by letting Tobias be captured - as his hawk morph was now his natural form, the Yeerks would think that he was still in morph when they used the weapon on him, and conclude that it had failed. The rest is alien technology. [1], The Animorphs' first act was to launch an attack against the vast Yeerk pool underneath their city.

[25], Learning from the Chee that the Yeerks were developing an Anti-Morphing Ray,[26] the Animorphs decided that rather than destroying it - and thus proving that it could affect them - they would instead make the Yeerks believe that the weapon would not work. [6], The Animorphs' first major victory against the Yeerks came when they were able to find and destroy the Yeerks' Kandrona, a device which supplied the Yeerks with Kandrona rays. They had their own aisle in every supermarket and spilled over into the checkout lane so you could impulse-buy them along with gum and nail clippers. The Escafil device cured three of them: James, who became the leader of the Auxiliary Animorphs, Craig, and Erica. They were assisted by the Ellimist, a being of immense power who could not act directly to help them, only give them the means to help themselves.

Many fans, including me, find a compelling transgender narrative in the character of Tobias, who chooses to remain in the body of a red-tailed hawk forever rather than continue living as a boy. Frankie Thomas is the author of “The Showrunner,” which received special mention in the 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Animorphs toys featured a small cast of human characters that transformed into various animals. Like Goosebumps and The Baby-Sitters Club, the Animorphs books were a product of the Scholastic industrial complex, which meant that they looked like disposable crap. Consequently, today’s Animorphs apologias share a tendency to assert that the series wasn’t really about five teenagers morphing into animals to fight aliens—that it was really about something else, though there’s no consensus on precisely what. The four human members of the Animorphs as depicted in the video games, The human members of the Animorphs fish for trout while Tobias looks on. Always able to see the funny side of life, Marco's wisecracking nature was offset by personal pain: his mother, whom he had believed was dead, was actually a Controller – Visser One. He tries to still live with humans …

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