it is week three of our amazing author celebration here at book club and it is a big one as always
we've got book slams book reviews q a's and we'll be chatting with superfan zoe very very soon but
who is our amazing author well it's none other than someone chinani author of the school for good
and evil you guys love this book and you've been sending your messages like dragongirl who says i
love the school for good and evil i have read all the books and i think they are amaze balls we also
have one from turquoise out it says just started reading the school for good and evil by so many
i'm really enjoying it so far you'd enjoy it if you like dark fantasy adventure and
fairy tales with a twist there are six books in the series i really recommend this book
it makes you want to read on and on thank you for those who even got koala boo who said this
series is amazing i'm so doing a book review and they haven't disappointed here they are
hi cbbc i really love the school for good and evil series they're so funny and entertaining
my favorite character is sophie because she's so bold and hilarious i would really recommend this
series to all of my friends bye it's koala boo now i think it's time for a school for
good and evil inspired book slam so this one's simple would you rather be a hero or a villain
this one comes in from solo eclipse he says i prefer to be a villain but good always wins
and gets and evil gets defeated boo it's a good villain name solar eclipse rosie says
i want to be good but not like really good just basically bending the rules all right anti-hero
blondie locks book lover says i love to be a villain like sophie they're so cool
but we'd have to be in the dean sophie era as i wouldn't want to wear the ragged
uniform from the schoolmas era i'm the biggest sge fan ever all about that style mid-ice cream
says i'd want to be like snape from harry potter mean but kind i don't know if it's worrying that
so many of you want to be villains but you know what each of your own uh stick around we'll be
chatting with so much nani himself we are joined by the author of the school for good and evil is
the amazing so much inani all the way from new york city simon hello thank you for joining us
oh thanks so much for having me i'm an american who would much rather be a brit so please uh adopt
me for real next time when this is all over are you are you kidding me done done we've signed the
papers you're one of us now amazing to have you uh we are so excited to talk to you your book series
is amazing uh we've had so many of our book clubs excited to ask some questions so let's try and
get through them um we've got this one well first off actually a lovely comment from blondie lock's
uh book lover who has said i've read all of the school for good of evil book series and i love
it i would say i'm the biggest fan so we found your biggest fan you're welcome you know you'd
have to do it anymore more reason to come over there come over um now this first question is
from gruntofish that asks if you could imagine yourself in any fairy tale where would it be
definitely hansel and gretel because i can see myself with my brother who would eat the candy
house and i don't even like candy and cake i can see myself being dragged into the situation
i don't want to be in and having to rescue him from this crazy witch totally up to my like 100
someone come on like a lollipop at least right you must have enjoyed that a chocolate bar wow i
was like the kid who just rejected candy and cake from the beginning i was my own carrot baffled you
know baffle that's amazing uh turquoise owl says this is such coincidence i'm currently reading
this series uh of the school for for good and evil and i'm on the fourth book i think they're
amazing what is your favorite part about writing and do you have any hobbies other than writing
i think with writing it's just getting to explore every kind of different universe and and fantasy
that i've ever had you know on the page it's like living two lives at once and i think with
hobbies i'm big into tennis that's the thing i do the most i play tennis five or six times a week
you know so i came to wimbledon when i was at 12 to watch it and fell in love with him
amazing and the great socially distant sport as well uh from panda's rule uh what is who
is your favorite character in your book this girl named sophie because sophie has no rules she does
everything she wants she's a complete diva at the age of 14 and i feel like that's why most
relate to uh myself so she's my favorite character i love writing her suits we love a diva and last
question is from astronomy lover what is the most difficult and best thing about being an author
the the most difficult thing is having to sit down and top yourself like when you're writing
a six book series every single chapter has to be better than the next so you're constantly trying
to do better and better and the best thing is all of the kids out there that i get to meet and
i'm hopeful when this is all over i'll be back on the road all over the world and in england
again getting to see you guys simon thank you so much for joining us and being a wonderful guest
it's been a pleasure to talk to you please come to book club again in person next time
my pleasure thanks so much for having me thank you see you guys this week on book club we are looking
at the amazing author is simon chanani author of the school for good and evil it's an amazing book
series many of you are fans of it and someone who would definitely recommend it is superfan
zoe zoe hello welcome to book club hi thanks for you for having me no sorry thank you for being
here now if you don't know who zoe is zoe is amazing get to know her because she started
her own podcast at the beginning of lockdown and little did you know when she started she'd
end up interviewing authors like david williams emma carroll robin stevens and the man himself
simon chanani that is a huge achievement zoe what was it like interviewing all those authors
um it was really exciting and fun it was a bit scary but they were always so nice so by the end
i didn't get it authors are lovely they're really really nice um now we're talking about sermon
chanani i can see you've got the books school for good and evil at the back of all six which one is
your favorite number three's my favorite because there's big battle at the end and i like actually
adventure books as well as mitch mystery and fantasy so that was nice to have a bit of action
in it and uh i also liked particularly they brought in old fairy tale characters who were
not young anymore but i had came from work there so i liked i love a good throwback i agree battles
are great now you mentioned characters which is your favorite character from the series
um my favorite character is hestia the leader of the witch having the kiss home and she has a
demon's tattoo that can come to life and complete her enemies for her wow all right like a pet on
your sleeve now we've been having our books on debate we've been asking would you rather be a
hero or a villain inspired by the books would you rather be i think i prefer to be a villain
because they're cool lessons they have cool powers they're really loyal to their villain friends and
they just seem more relaxed but the good people do well there you go don't double cross zoe zoe thank
you for joining us in book club and join us next week when we be talking with jacqueline wilson