{"id":3103,"date":"2011-07-01T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:33:36","slug":"animorphs-3-the-encounter-officially-released-also-series-discussion-in-ala-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/2011\/07\/01\/animorphs-3-the-encounter-officially-released-also-series-discussion-in-ala-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Animorphs #3: The Encounter OFFICIALLY Released! Also, Scholastic series discussion panel at ALA 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Animorphs #3 is now <em>officially<\/em> relaunched today! The book has already been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?p=3059\" target=\"_blank\">released early<\/a> at a few select locations, but it should be at all retailers now, including in ebook form. Book summary:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Animorphs #3: The Encounter (Lenticular Edition)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/images\/books\/relaunch\/front-covers\/am03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/images\/blog\/relaunch\/thumbs\/am3orig.jpg\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\"><\/img><\/a>When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also given an important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. But Tobias broke the time limit, and now he&#8217;s trapped in the body of a hawk &#8212; forever. When he discovers an important Yeerk secret, Tobias knows he has to do everything in his power to destroy it. But to do so, he&#8217;ll have to contend with a part of himself that&#8217;s wrestling for control. A part that isn&#8217;t human.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?page_id=1021\" target=\"_blank\">Paperback and eBook Order Links<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In addition to this, there&#8217;s also some interesting relaunch info by <em>Renata<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Why, a Blog!<\/em><\/a>, who attended David Levithan&#8217;s panel at the annual <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Library Association<\/a><\/em> (ALA) conference this year. Here&#8217;s a brief quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Anyway, so he starts up his presentation and the first slide is covers of the Babysitters Club and Animorphs relaunch titles, though he said that he didn&#8217;t have anything to do with Animorphs (although he did work at Scholastic when Animorphs was being published). He talked about the late 80s and early 90s as the &#8220;heyday&#8221; of series fiction, when books would come out once a month or twice a month. He cited BSC, Animorphs, and Goosebumps as Scholastic&#8217;s &#8220;Big Three,&#8221; which was interesting to me because I never thought Animorphs were as popular as BSC or Goosebumps? As a kid, I definitely knew more people who read the other two series than Animorphs. But maybe that was just my school. Also, he described all three series as being &#8220;episodic&#8221; fiction where it didn&#8217;t necessarily matter if you read them in order, or read all of them. To some extent that&#8217;s true of Animorphs (there are definitely books you could skip, for example) but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s true in the same way it is for BSC or Goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Oh, and he talked about revamping the series-es (I think the plural of series is just series but whatev) and making them &#8220;time neutral.&#8221; The example he gave was if a character was listening to a Walkman, they didn&#8217;t change it to &#8220;iPod,&#8221; since you&#8217;d just have to change that again in 10 years. Instead they changed it to &#8220;music.&#8221; He said it wasn&#8217;t that hard to do, which I thought was a little surprising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">I suggest everyone check out the entire post, as it&#8217;s an interesting read. She covered the event by posting at both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Why, A Blog!<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/animorphs.livejournal.com\/657108.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Animorphs LiveJournal Community<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Lastly, I have also updated the <em>missions <\/em>archive. <em>Animorphs #1<\/em> now has a list of all the relaunch edits that I could find in the re-read (Please let me know of any edits I may have missed), and Animorphs #3 now has the back cover added (via amazon), and a new higher-res front cover.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Oh, and I renewed <em>Hirac Delest<\/em>&#8216;s hosting\/domain for another year (We&#8217;re now 4 years old!). Thanks to everyone who has supported us through the years! Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Animorphs #3 is now officially relaunched today! The book has already been released early at a few select locations, but it should be at all retailers now, including in ebook form. Book summary: &nbsp; Animorphs #3: The Encounter (Lenticular Edition) When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,8,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animorphs-relaunch","category-articles-interviews","category-community","category-database","category-mission-archive","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}