This is also supported in #2: The Visitor, when Rachel looks at a photo "taken a couple of years ago" of her and Melissa Chapman, taken on Melissa's "twelfth birthday, or some birthday." Print. After the cancellation, several toys planned to be part of the Animorphs line were slightly remodeled and released as part of the Beast Wars Mutants line. You'll have to be one step ahead of Visser Three in order to foil his plans for destruction. But just know that the end is coming. All books after The Unknown were dedicated to Applegate's child, Jake, as well as her husband and co-writer, Michael. The human name of Ax's brother, Elfangor, is Alan Fangor and his last name is in reference to the Fangor region or Fangorn Forest. In September 2015, several film websites began reporting rumors that Universal Pictures had plans to adapt the book series into a film, based on a report by the film website The Tracking Board. [5] The books were also adapted into a television series of the same name on Nickelodeon, YTV and Global Television Network from 1998 to 1999. A step of the cover morph was printed on each page, less than an inch tall, in black-and-white. Every book featured an introduction to the series on the back cover, in the voice of Jake, one of the Animorphs. This only makes you more suspicious: What are the Yeerks up to now?A series of missions turns summer into less of a vacation and more of a battle to know the secret. The most vital is that they cannot stay in animal form for more than two hours, or they will be unable to return to human form and the morphs become permanent. [10] The series debut was preceded by a large marketing campaign which included posters on buildings, giveaway items in bookstores, and ads on Nickelodeon TV.[10]. You're still not sure whose side he's on. In #22: The Solution, Rachel states that Jake is "not even in high school." Jake says outright at the start of the second chapter that he is sixteen, started the war when he was thirteen, and has been fighting the war for over three years. In the end, the characters are either nineteen or twenty years old, depending on how long they had been in space just before the series' conclusion. The front covers featured images of the narrating Animorph undergoing the various stages of one of the morphs from the story, with a few exceptions (noted in each book's article). Though the Animorphs can assume the form of any animal they touch to acquire the DNA, there are several limitations to the ability. [7] "When Tobias becomes a hawk, I want the reader to see the world as a hawk might see it—to soar on the warm breezes and hurtle toward the ground to make a kill", she said.[7]. #52: The Sacrifice provided a clear answer as to the question of grade level. He gives them the power to morph minutes before his death. Gallimard Jeunesse is the French publisher and Tammi is the Finnish publisher. Really careful. MacLeod Andrews provides the narration for Jake, Emily Ellet for Rachel, Michael Crouch for Tobias, Sisi Aisha Johnson for Cassie, Ramón de Ocampo for Marcos, and Adam Verner for Ax. A mission that the pair went on with Elfangor's peer Arbron and a pair of humans led to Alloran's infestation by the Yeerk who would become Visser Three, who used Alloran's morphing abilities for many vile purposes throughout the years. For instance, the word nothlit was derived from the hotel name Hilton. [22], Animorphs: Shattered Reality is a platform video game, released for PlayStation. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 . All the covers of the regular series books had a small cutout over part of the full morph's anatomy, revealing a computer-generated illustration on the first page, which was printed on glossy paper. To protect their families from Yeerk reprisals, the Animorphs maintain this façade. [14][15]. The final book, #54 The Beginning had a unique cover style, with the logo consisting of a glowing outline. Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul - Elfangor is the first alien the Animorphs meet in the series. [citation needed]. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Animorphs: Know the Secret was a video game for PC, one of the three Animorphs video games released. This puts the Animorphs' ages as anywhere between fourteen and eighteen (as high-school students in the United States typically fall within this age range). Naming themselves "Animorphs" (a portmanteau of "animal morphers"),[6] they use their ability to battle a secret alien infiltration of Earth by a parasitic race of aliens resembling large slugs called Yeerks, that can take any living creatures as a host by entering and merging with their brain through the ear canal. Applegate in May 2011", https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Animorphs-Graphix-K-Applegate/dp/1338226487/, "IAm K.A. We've got a few secrets left, and we're gonna use them. Inside cover of Know the Secret game book, showing an illustration of a hork-bajir, Know the Secret on Scholastic official site, 'Take Control' ad for the PC and Playstation game, from book 45. His adventures are highlighted in the book called. Where will you be when it ends? They know exactly where we live. There was a problem completing your request. Behind the morphing character were images of clouds and skies, which became more colorful and elaborate as the series progressed.