There was an episode of the Kirby anime that’s a spoof of Harry Potter, complete with a visit by the author “Rowlin”. It was part of the trend of praise for it making children like to read.
There was an episode of the Kirby anime that’s a spoof of Harry Potter, complete with a visit by the author “Rowlin”. It was part of the trend of praise for it making children like to read.
Also Animorphs also made kids read and clearly was the superior choice for kids of that era
And K.A. Applegate loves her trans daughter
They were all the rage when I was in elementary/middle school, ALL the boys read them and it was a BIG deal when a new one came out.
I remember those books so fondly that I picked up the first one and read it with my step-kid before bed one night.
The writing was, and I cannot emphasize this enough, absolute dogshit. Just AWFUL. I genuinely do not know why they were so popular nor why we loved them so much.
Writing quality was inconsistent due to most of them being ghost written based on outlines from K.A. Applegate. The stories though could be absolutely wild by kid lit standards.
At a time when teachers were desperate to get kids to read literally anything mine were struggling to get me to put animorphs down because I was always trying to sneakily read it in every class instead of paying attention.
Dude we ALL were, myself included. And yeah don’t get me wrong I’m glad that it got kids reading that is never a bad thing, I’m just amazed that that was what we were all amped about.
Jokes on you, I like dogshit