Meet the Stars of Animorphs

by K.A .Applegate, Randi Reisfeld

Tells the story behind the popular television series and looks at the main characters and the actors who play them

Genres: Nonfiction, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, Adult

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

The Animorphs TV show was bad, this book is worse. It contains 20-page celebrity-magazine-style biographies of each actor, mostly Canadians, who generally led dull, wholesome lives before getting cast in Animorphs. But I have (and love) all the other Animorphs books so I'll keep this one too, despite awarding it just 1 Star.

Two notes:

"[Rachel's] main morph is the lion, the fierce, powerful queen of the jungle." First, TV!Rachel morphs a male lion. Second, I am pretty sure lions do not live in the jungle.

In the chapter about the animal trainer Michael Hackenberger, I was getting serious Tiger King vibes. Wikipedia informs me his privately-owned zoo was shut down in 2016 (17 years after this book was published) for animal cruelty. He was whipped a tiger and put his thumb in its eye. :-(
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[Jackie Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I do not know how I ever would have survived junior high without this fantastic science fiction series. Maybe the story quality went down as the book numbers got higher, but the idea that aliens were invading our planet secretly... it was almost good enough for a young teenager to believe.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

The most painfully, hilariously 90s thing I've ever read. This is a companion book to the Animorphs TV series, filled with "fun" facts and bizarrely stilted cast interviews: "We were never left alone with the animals. That would be against zoo rules!". It's basically 100 pages of excruciating slang and I loved it.

[Darcy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's AUTHORIZED.

[Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Note: This rating comes from my 12 year old self, in a recently discovered school assignment.