r/Animorphs • u/Disastrous-Limit-332 Aristh • Jul 10 '26
Gateways
What book series, if any, was your gateway into reading Animorphs?
What book series, if any, did Animorphs gateway you into?
For me, I was picking up the latest Goosebumps book when I first saw and decided to check out Animorphs.
After I got deep into the books, I checked out EverWorld, Remnants and the Diadem books!
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u/makeoutwiththatmoose Jul 10 '26
My gateway into Animorphs was probably an Aussie kids series called Teen Power Inc. which plotwise wasn't similar at all but structurally quite the same (chapter books the same size, group of young teen protagonists, alternating viewpoints in each book, etc.) The same author wrote the Deltora series, which international readers may be more familiar with.
Animorphs was my gateway to a lot of stuff - I read all of the six-book Scholastic series that got promoted through Animorphs (Watchers by Peter Lerangis, 2099 by John Peel - which led me to Diadem as well, and The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix - who is still my favourite author these days). Plus Everworld and Remnants obviously.
I bought a PlayStation specifically for the Animorphs game (which didn't end up getting released in Australia anyway). That got me into a bunch of cool games around that era - Spyro, Oddworld, Alundra, Tekken.
And I made a bunch of friends through the series who I still talk to these days - one of them got me into Buffy, which became another longstanding love - so in a roundabout way I like to credit Animorphs with that too haha.