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The Invasion: A Graphic Novel (Animorphs #1) (1) (Animorphs Graphic Novels) Paperback – Illustrated, October 6, 2020

by K. A. Applegate (Author), Michael Grant (Author), Chris Grine (Illustrator)
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The wildly popular, bestselling sci-fi series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant returns in a new full-color graphic novel series, adapted by Chris Grine.

Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He could tell you about the night he and his friends saw a strange light in the sky that seemed to be heading right for them. That was the night five normal kids learned that humanity is under a silent attack -- and were given the power to fight back.Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco can transform into some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth. And they must use that power to outsmart an evil greater than anything the world has ever seen. . . .
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    Animorphs
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  4. Language
    English
  5. Grade level
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    GN300L
  7. Dimensions
    8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches
  8. Publisher
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  9. Publication date
    October 6, 2020
  10. ISBN-10
    1338538098
  11. ISBN-13
    978-1338538090
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Praise for Animorphs:"[The Animorph books] were dark and witty and thrilling, endlessly inventive and achingly sad. They made me laugh out loud and cry myself to sleep. I've been thinking about them for twenty years." -- The Paris Review"Engaging ... impressive." -- School Library Journal"There's clearly something about Animorphs that has kept kids enthralled." -- Publisher's WeeklyPraise for Chris Grine's Chickenhare:"An imaginative, outlandish and rollicking adventure."-- Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Chris Grine's Time Twisters:"As satisfying and enjoyable as a big-budget animated sci-fi feature." -- Kirkus Reviews"The clean backgrounds, dynamic perspectives panels, and bold linework emphasize action and physical comedy, but the story's thoughtful consideration of grief and destiny nicely counterbalances its wilder twists and turns." -- Publishers Weekly

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K.A. Applegate is the married writing team Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant. Their Animorphs series has sold millions of copies worldwide and alerted the world to the presence of the Yeerks. Katherine is also the author of the Endling series and the Newbery Medal–winning The One and Only Ivan. Michael is also the author of the Front Lines and Gone series.

CHRIS GRINE is the creator of the Eisner Award-nominated Chickenhare and Time Shifters. He’s been making up stories since he was a kid, and not just to get out of trouble with his parents. Nowadays, Chris spends most of his time writing and illustrating books, drinking lots of coffee, and sleeping as little as possible. He spends his free time with his wife, playing with his kids, watching movies, and collecting action figures (but only the bad guys).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Graphix; Illustrated edition (October 6, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1338538098
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1338538090
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 11 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ GN300L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.

    Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); and SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books).

    She’s written two early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); and DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends).

    Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); and WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends).

    With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)

    Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.

    THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN was made into a Disney movie starring Brian Cranston, Sam Rockwell, and Angelina Jolie.

    Katherine lives in California, with her family and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Pippin Properties, Inc.

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Don't make my mistake and ensure you've taken a look at this book's illustrations before your young reader begins it. I included a few photos of the uncanny valley nature of the illustration - not that it's bad, but just wanting other parents to be able to make an educated choice about this for their reader and ensure it's age appropriate. It was far too creepy for my 8 year old to be able to read.
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A. Delgado
5.0 out of 5 stars Popular 90s novel turned into a comic book
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
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I was ecstatic when I found out via Amazon that the popular 90s book series Animorphs are being converted into comic book form. I checked out the free pages as a sneak peek and read the reviews in which people said they were not disappointed. I decided to buy it to add to my Animorphs book collection. As I was reading it, I really liked the illustrations, etc. and the book did stay true to the original novel. I plan to buy the rest of the comic books and hope more will be coming out!
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Charlotte
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Adaptation
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2020
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As a lifelong Animorphs fan, I've tended to be critical of most adaptations of the original books, both official and otherwise. This is, far and away, the best realization of the story of Animorphs #1 since the actual book.

The first thing I want to say is that this is a real adaptation, not just the book but abridged and with pictures. The strengths of the medium of comics are used to tell the story in a new and interesting way. Where the book might have spent a couple sentences describing the impression Jake got from something Tom said, this comic will instead simply leave the sentence hanging, and leave it to the reader to interpret the real meaning behind those words by looking at Tom's facial expression. It's a more subtle take on the story, and I thoroughly enjoyed this version. Through it all, it's still Animorphs, as intense and unflinching as it ever was.

Another thing worth noting are that this comic is based on the 2011 reprint book, which doesn't come up much because of the relative lack of narration, but there are a few elements of the 1996 original that have been updated to be compliant with the larger continuity.

I look forward to future issues of this adaptation and hope they figure out a way to get through to at least The Andalite Chronicles in less than thirteen years.
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LeannLeann
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful New Addition To An Amazing Series
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2020
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I'm a long time, avid fan of the Animorphs series. Started reading it in middle school, and I spent many years searching for and acquiring all of the books as a collection, which I completed 5 years ago. I thought my collection was absolutely complete. I thought this series was dead and only remembered as a quirk of the 90s/00s.

But I was wrong. It turns out it is more fondly remembered than I ever anticipated, and it has made a grand return in the form of this lovely graphic novel adaptation! I was concerned that it would take some... liberties... like the old TV show did, but after reading it for a few minutes it was clear that the artist lovingly rendered every scene as faithfully as possible. This book is most definitely a labor of love and it shows! From the words of acknowledgement from Applegate herself, the setting apparently being in the 90s, the aliens and morphing being suitably creepy and yet not hard to look at, and the beautifully touching expressions on the characters, it is clear that they wanted to give us hardcore fans the highest quality adaptation possible.

I love this series. I love it so, so much, I can't even put it into words. And this graphic novel absolutely did it justice. I love it! I'm super stoked for the next volume, to keep reading on and enjoy the fabulous art, and to continue my collection!
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5.0 out of 5 stars loved this as a kid!
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023
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I have all of the original books in first edition print. I’ve read the series and re read it multiple times since. It helped me get into reading, and I still remember my late nights and remember most of the stories. I recently realized there were kindle versions, and stumbled on the graphic novels. While this style of comic art is not my particular preference, it works with the story and I’m blown alway from the accuracy from the book to comic page. Love that my childhood books series is getting some modern love! I hope they are able to do all of them!
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Michael W. Beahm
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! What a great ride!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2023
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Wow! What a great ride! This book is highly recommended. It was extremely enjoyable. Chris Grine's illustrations are wonderful! You should get it for your children.
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Ross Cole Jr
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine adaptation
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022
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This comic is quite faithful to the original book. The art helps me piece together the more alien parts (bug fighters look vaguely like cockroaches, but not exactly; the yeerk pools look more sci-fi than what I first imagined they would be; I finally know exactly what Visser Three’s monster morphs look like!), and I like the designs of main characters: they look more like regular teens now. I hope to see more of this.
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Jordan
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely perfect
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020
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Animorphs was THE big children’s series just before Harry Potter was released, and it deserves way more love and attention. I never managed to collect all of the books growing up, so I’m very hopeful this release catches on with new generations, because I want them all!

For those unfamiliar with the series itself, the Animorphs are just a couple of kids called to fight a guerilla war against the Yeerks, an invading race of parasitic aliens seeking galactic conquest. Earth is central to their plans because it has billions of humans available to become hosts for the Yeerks. The Animorphs must fight back by morphing into various animal forms to try and slow the Yeerk invasion until help arrives.

The art is absolutely lovely, balancing the “normal” reality of the world with the dark truth that anyone around you could be a Controller. The Andalites, Taxxons and Hork-Bajir are as well drawn as any of the Earth morphs. The story and plot are faithful to the original (as best I can remember without actually having book 1 on me.) I can’t wait to see the rest of the series released!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely perfect
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020
Animorphs was THE big children’s series just before Harry Potter was released, and it deserves way more love and attention. I never managed to collect all of the books growing up, so I’m very hopeful this release catches on with new generations, because I want them all!

For those unfamiliar with the series itself, the Animorphs are just a couple of kids called to fight a guerilla war against the Yeerks, an invading race of parasitic aliens seeking galactic conquest. Earth is central to their plans because it has billions of humans available to become hosts for the Yeerks. The Animorphs must fight back by morphing into various animal forms to try and slow the Yeerk invasion until help arrives.

The art is absolutely lovely, balancing the “normal” reality of the world with the dark truth that anyone around you could be a Controller. The Andalites, Taxxons and Hork-Bajir are as well drawn as any of the Earth morphs. The story and plot are faithful to the original (as best I can remember without actually having book 1 on me.) I can’t wait to see the rest of the series released!
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Trey McIntosh
5.0 out of 5 stars A retelling of a sci-fi series from my childhood
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2022
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I remember experiencing Animorphs for the first time when it came on Nickelodeon in the 90’s and finally reading one of the books. I didn’t start at the beginning (I came in at the final book of the David trilogy), so I didn’t know fully how the Animorphs fully got their start, nor did I know that Visser Three was so…eldritch. His morphs were boss battle level, and the art style made certain shots more visceral and uncanny. So seeing him turn into giant monsters was surprising to see. All in all, I’m interested to see how the graphic novel series handles the Ellimist, the Crayak, the Chee & Erik, and the origin of Seerow’s Kindness.
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Jon Rivers
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly well produced! True to the original series!!
Reviewed in Canada on November 13, 2020
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When I heard there was a graphic novel I was skeptical. This thing met all my expectations and then went above and beyond them. My only criticism would maybe be that Tobias and Rachel looks REALLY similar in some panels, but that's hardly worth pointing out. I had recently bought a nice used set of the Animorphs books and purchased the individual ones I didn't get with that set (I re-read them all recently!), so I was excited to buy this. I got the hardcover, because yeah, I'm that die hard.

Looking forward to more of these. Just hope he doesn't release them so fast I can't afford them hahahah

Sadly it looks like the movie is going to suck because KA Applegate and Michael Grant backed out of it due to creative differences, so I WONT be paying for that in any way shape or form.
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Salvatore Tarchini
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Reviewed in Italy on November 4, 2020
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E' arrivato nelle condizioni adeguate. Il libro poi è ben fatto, i disegni rendono molto bene le atmosfere del libro. L'acquisto è un must per chiunque sia fan.
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Björn B. ♦ Nds
5.0 out of 5 stars 1+* | Beste Buchreihe | Umsetzung vom kompletten Band 1 als Bilderbuch mit Sprechblasen
Reviewed in Germany on October 10, 2020
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Toll das der erste Band nun auch als Zeichencomic erschienen ist!! :)

Natürlich sind die Taschenbücher noch eine ganze Ecke besser und Ausführlicher für's Gehirn.
(Man kann sich um einiges besser in die Situation hineinversetzen und es gibt viel mehr Details)

Für Einsteiger in das Thema / Animorph-Universum ist dieses Buch aber auch gut
und als Fan, als Zusatz, ein muss ;-)

Extra-Info: Es wurde von Ravensburger Band 1-30 ins deutsche im Taschenbuchformat übersetzt,
Band 31-54 sind im englischen Original zu finden
+ über 10 Zusatzbände neben der Haupthandlung.

Absolute Leseempfehlung für alle die süchtig werden möchten^^.
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Rp
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2020
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True to the source material with brilliant kinetic artwork. Can’t wait for more!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for Animorphs fans!
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2022
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I loved the Animorphs growing up and this is a great adaptation. Very nostalgic and faithful to the books. Chris Grine's artwork is perfect for the series.
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