Page by Paul Frawley Last Updated: 25 May 2001
Paul's Web Space: Transformers: Book Guide
There have been many books telling the tales of the Transformers. Here is a guide to the Story-books, read-along tapes, colouring books that tell more of the broad mythos of the Transformers outside of the cartoon and comics! I have other Transformer books but those which don't feature an actual story are not being covered by this guide (at this stage at least). I also don't count the collected comics or UK Annuals because these really belong to a guide to the Transformer comics.
The format of the guide is based on The Virgin Book guides (to shows like Buffy, Ally McBeal, Red Dwarf and Voyager - all faves of mine) and I've since found that follow Ozformer Ratbat has done the same thing more then a year ago for her Virgin's Guide to the UK Transformer comics.
I'm only going to be able to write about the books I have. So info on the titles in black at the moment are coming, but any information of any other titles would be appreciated! Also some entries are rather short at the moment but I will add to them when I have time.
A key to the format is located at the bottom of this page.
The entries follow this pattern.
Following the title of the book:
Author: Who wrote the story
Artist: Who drew the pictures
The Heroic Autobots: the Autobots who appear in
the story, whether in the text or just in the art.
The Evil Decepticons: as above but with the
Decepticons
Then follows a brief summary of the plot
Say it again: Includes the dialogue that stands
out for good or bad reasons.
Where in the World: Any references to towns or
countries that locate the story somewhere in our world.
Puzzling: Gives a description of the puzzles
that made the Colour and Activity books what they were.
Not evil enough: The evil plans of the
Decepticons that have been toned down to make the books more
kid-friendly.
Continuity: Focuses on elements in the books
that seem to suggest whether they are part of one of the more
common canon (comics/cartoon) or aren't. Also mentions any
continuity between different books (although this is very rare).
Comments: Any other comments/opinions relating
to the book and the story.
Page by Paul Frawley
Last Updated: 25 May 2001