The Animorphs Cookbook

Rachel has to deal with local TV stardom, custody drama between her parents, and alligator allergies, all in the same book! The gang tries not to give birth to any reptiles as we deal with one of the peak Animorph farces found in the entire series.In , Max deals with the old maxim "never meet your heroes" and how that lesson seemed a bit more urgent in the 90s than today. Max (he/him)Thaddeus (she/her)Caleb (he/him) 

Narration duties cycle back to Jake just in time for the obligatory time-travel required of all franchises above a certain size. The gang encounters jaguars, monkeys, and quantum suicides. Oh my!In < thoughtspeak >, Thaddeus returns (and returns and returns) to the question of what time travel is really for.Max (he/him)Thaddeus (she/her)Caleb (he/him)

We got boys turning into skinwalker dogs to listen to the Offspring while robot dogs manipulate mankind to look after actual dogs! It's topsy-turvy in Book 10 as we are introduced to the Chee and a major expansion to Animorph cosmology.In , Caleb talks about verisimilitude, the acceleration of the series away from it, and how Applegate and Grant avoid one of the biggest traps in modern fiction.Max (he/him)Thaddeus (she/her)Caleb (he/him)

We're back with the next Cassie book, so you know this tree-hugging has claws...and smells! The gang joins our heroes as they agonize over the ethics of carnivores and the logistics of practical ecoterrorism, and we try not to get too hung up on that time the body-snatching alien army got beaten by a skunk. In , Max walks us through some of the history of US environmentalism informing the Animorphs and ways the evolution of those issues affect our reading today. Max (he/him)Thaddeus (she/her)Caleb (he/him)

Ax book! Ax book! Ax book! It's time for the first foray of our fan-favorite narrator. The gang talks about delicious globules, the charm of stupid plans, and Animorphs as high farce.Then it's Caleb's turn to reply-all some < thoughtspeak > as he refamilizarizes our audience with "defamiliarization," the Russian formalists, and alienated perspective as an essential sci-fi tool. Max (he/him)Thaddeus (she/her)Caleb (he/him)