![]() ![]() “I wanted to write about animals-to put kids into the heads of animals somehow,” Katherine wrote for Scholastic’s online Animorph’s database the Anibase. Applegate and Grant were walking around their Sarasota, Florida, apartment complex one evening when they decided to brainstorm ideas for a new children's series. The story behind Animorphs proves that inspiration can strike in the least likely of places. ![]() Animorphs was conceived beside a dumpster. ![]() The world also got its own choose-your-own-adventure-style spin-off series called Alternamorphs. The franchise expanded to included multiple companion series, such as Megamorphs (which switches to a different character’s perspective each chapter) and The Animorph Chronicles (which focuses on the aliens’ side of the story). ![]() Hardcore Animorphs readers know that the adventure doesn’t end with the 54 main books. The original authors still had control over the direction of the story, writing detailed outlines for each book, and they returned to write the final two installments themselves. In a 2011 Reddit AMA, Katherine Applegate revealed that books 25 through 52 were ghostwritten. But Katherine and Michael weren’t working alone. That’s a lot of material, even for a two-person writing team. Lesh51, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0īetween 19, Scholastic released the 54 books that make up the core Animorphs series. ![]()
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