How did you get hooked on Animorphs?

[Visser19]

When I was a young warthog... wait, sorry, wrong fansite...

     When I was young, I remember seeing Animorphs books in the Elementary school library and thinking that they looked interesting, but I didn't want to read them. I thought I would be too nerdy if I did. Ha, that's how it was with virtually every series, TV, Movie or Books, that I have ever gone into, including Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Harry Potter, etc. All of these I was against for a long time until I finally broke down and was hooked. (Star Wars was a different story, but my Dad showed me that probably when I was 1 so that's different.)
     So, I always saw the books, and they were available to order through the book orders that we always took home as kids, but I didn't want to read them. It wasn't until we visited family in Mesa, AZ one summer that all that changed. My cousin Ronnie formally introduced me to the series and he already had many of the books (I started way late). I was like, "Cool, that's nice...  " But I wasn't interested. But for the few days we were their he kept on talking about Animorphs over and over. Finally when we left, he gave me a copy of The Invasion, all torn and falling apart. He told me to read it on the way home. So, since I had nothing to do for the long ride back to Southern California, I decided to read it.
     Immediately I was into it. Road stops were just a nuisance and I didn't want to eat, and even though I occasionally got a little car sick from reading, and even though the lighting was horrible at night, I continued reading. When we got home I finished the book soon after. Ever since then, I was, well, hooked.
     I still have that same battered and beat copy of The Invasion that my cousin gave to me. It now serves as a great piece of sentimental history for me that I will never get rid of.

So what is your story of how you came to be an Ani-Freak?  

[Chad32]

Is that a Lion King fansite, or just a Timon and Puumba fansite?

Anyway, I once went inside a bookstore that I had never gone into before and saw the cover of a boy turning into a blue alien, and thought that might be an interesting read. I soon found an interesting tale of a group of shapeshifters fghting a war against body stealing parasites. That boy I thought was turning into an alien turned out to be an alien turning into a boy. When I went by the bookstore a week later, I started looking for more Animorphs books. Book fifteen was the latest book from the series I found that summer.

I like science fiction stories, so aliens interest me. And these aliens were more like Star Wars types of aliens than Sar Trek, which was nice.

[aareavis]

I was 9 or 10.  I also got those book orders at school from Scholastic.  In these book orders, there would occasionally be different clubs you could join.  I signed up for the horror/sci-fi club.  I can't remember what it was called...  I mostly got things about werewolves and ghosts.  One month, I got a small booklet with a picture of a boy turning into a lizard.  It was a sample chapter of The Invasion (the one where Jake turns into a Green Anole lizard).  I saw the actual book for sale in the next book order and I got it.  I think I was behind by only 6 books then.  I had to hunt for the ones I was missing.  I started getting them regularly after about book 12 or so(?).  It was quite a while before I had 2, 3, MM1, and  8.

[VisserZer0]

I was in 4th grade. A friend-in-passing got me hooked on them. Interesting thing is, I don't really talk to her anymore.

[goom]

i saw it at borders and liked the concept. i think i started reading them about when book 15 came out.

(i was young, yes.)

[g33kgirl]

I was about 8 yrs old when I saw #1,2, and 3 at a book fair at my school.  I got all three of them and have addicted ever since! 

I think I had 20-something of the books when my family and I moved to England.  The publishers in the UK were very slow at getting the series out and one day they vanished off the shelves all together.  So with the power of the internet (bless you Amazon.co.uk!!!) I have managed to track down and complete my Animorphs collection.  I love it- they're all dog-eared and battered and the covers are all mismatched due to the different publishing companies!

So I was 8 when I began the series and 22 when I finally read the end....that's a long war!

[WildAtHeart]

I remember my friends gettin into them. But I didn't start reading into book4. I saw a dolphin on the cover and I was obsessed with dolphins lol my mom bought it for my birthday but I begged and begged until she gave it to me. I read it on the kitchen floor...for some reason I loved reading on he kitchen floor as a kid lol

I don't remember how many books in he series were out yet. I think it was near the beginning

[A ghost you know]

I was browsing my library, looking for something good to read, and happened across part of the series. I got hooked incredibly quickly, so much so that I ended up downloading all of the e-books from here just so I wouldn't have to wait for my weekly library trip to get the rest of the series. That also took care of waiting for other fans to surrender the books they already had checked out.

[powertrash]

God, I remember this like most people remember meeting their SO.

I was in 3rd grade and my teacher had a lot of books on the classroom bookshelf. One of them happened to be the Invasion. I was going through them, as I was a nerd, and I picked up the Invasion. I remember becoming so engrossed that, when it was time to actually begin to learn, I could barely put the book down. I quickly collected all of the others--I think the trilogy was just out when I started the series--and then started that horrible wait for the next one.

I lost faith in the series during the ghostwriter stretch of the '40s but bought and read all of them after the Beginning came out again.

[KitsuneMarie]

It was 1995. Animorphs #2 had just come out. Scholastic set up a book fair in my elementary school library and, intrigued by #1, I spent the $10 my mom had given me on both books (back when they were only about $4 apiece). And the rest is history.

[Ash]

Got my hands on the first one in the library, around 8 years ago, I think? I was already crazy about animals and genes, so the whole morphing-DNA-young teens thing just grabbed at me and, as Marie said, the rest is history

[Shenmue654]

I got into them at the tender age of eight or nine. But I had a high reading level like many RAFians. 

I had just finished the Rats of NIMH when I saw the first and second books on the table, near the area where all the books were kept. I began to read them and was immediately drawn into the complex plot and interesting characters. For a kid's book. :3

When the school book fair came around again (God I loved that thing), I got ahold of Books 1-5. And ever since that point, I went to the book store each month hunting for Animorphs books. Though I stopped at #42 due to how bad the ghostwriter was, I never forgot the series and love it to this day.

Aliens and fascism and morphing! And REBELS! Ohmy! :D

[Unknown User]

I'm a few years younger than most RAFians and started the series late as far as age goes. I think I may have started on the series thanks to a teachers bookshelf but I'm not really sure. All I know is that once I got hooked on them, my grandmother started buying them for me at yard sales and flea markets and such. I was lucky, because by the time I started reading there were many back issues and I got to read all of them for the first time while waiting for the new ones to come out.

[powertrash]

My parents would literally bribe me with these books when I first got into them. I cleaned my room and got #5 as a reward. They gave me a different book from the trilogy each day for Christmas. I caught up on 1-22 in a weird order, then, but for a while my parents had a stash of Animorph books to reward me with.

I was Pavlov's effing dog.

[roguebluejay]

Scholastic book fairs were rockin. I just wish the books weren't so damn expensive! You would read them in an hour!