I remember coming across this in the elementary school library! Thanks for the quick nostalgia trip.
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.
Maybe someone should have taught their teacher not to pull off his human mask while standing right in front of an open window.
One of the teacher’s big mistakes was to casually stare at the sun during recess
I thought he was stabbing himself in the neck with a large parsnip until I zoomed in.
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?”
This was one of my favorite books when I was in school. Bruce Coville wrote a lot of my favorites from that time period
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s very popular among the sorts of folks who use Lemmy.
I’m not sure what you mean
We’re old
I mean I think a lot of us are nerds who like sci-fi and possibly sympathize with the kid in the book who decides he wants to be abducted.
I really enjoyed My Teacher Flunked The Planet. I’ve got to go reread it. I feel like it might be topical.
There was a really decent point and click adventure game about this series. It had a bunch of methods for discovering the alien, and it was randomised which teacher was the alien each run. A touch clunky on some sections, but still a personal favourite of mine.
That was a good book
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 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.
