Also, the author of the Trees are Trans book in question here is K.A. Applegate - the author of Animorphs. (She also has a trans kid).
I loved Animorphs. I missed the bus stop in junior high several times reading them. 😂
Remember when there were animorphs memes in the alf cluster era
KA Applegate, the writer of the hardest kid’s book series ever, and the anti JK Rowling. Wish I could go back to my young self and tell him to stick with the animorphs and ignore Harry Potter, it’ll make him right in the end
there are so many kids who read Animorphs who realized they were trans through reading the books. One of my friends wrote this: avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2017/08/03/r... (A lot of us also turned out very anti-war and extremely skeptical of government propaganda and cults.)
Today, there is plenty of young adult literature aimed at trans kids, or starring trans characters. Ok, maybe not plenty, but there’s some: George by Alex Gino, or Luna by Julie Ann Peters, or I Am…
give it up for animorphs !!
Also, she rules