this summer on book club we are celebrating some of your favorite
authors we've got some amazing writing challenges brilliant book slams and we're putting your
questions to your favorite authors this week we are looking at mallory blackman i love her
i love malibu if you're watching i love come on book club now mary blackman is an amazing writer
she's written so many incredible novels including the naughts and crosses book series which is my
favorite pig hut boy incredible ellie and the cat and hacker and she's also yeah what's up reesey
pips oh hey i didn't mean you i was talking about the book you said hacker what do you want no no
the book is called hackers there's a book about me it's not about you it's just called hacker
yeah i don't get it leave just go thanks never calls when i ask him to but now it's all about
it anyway we want to know what you think about mallory blackman and you've been sending some
amazing uh comments and charlie says i love maddie blackman's books and my favorite is cloud busting
i would totally recommend this book because it's really fun and it shows what friendship is and
don't be shy to follow your dreams and what you believe in i love that slytherin dobby potter
okay says wow i love the notes across the series although they are definitely for older readers i
would recommend them as they address the problem of racism i feel you honestly the lord's question
series is my absolute favorite of mallory blackman a great tv series now as well and that's that's
the point of manny blackman she writes these incredible stories are taking very sensitive
subjects but for readers like the younger readers because she shows them respect she understands
that everyone can understand the theme that she's writing about and she tailors it specifically to
the reader that's why i love mary blackman that's why i think she's incredible and her skill is
just there if you've not read not across it you gotta read it and pick up for it and we've got a
messaging from starlight who says mallory blackman you are my favorite author my favorite books for
you have got to be thieve hacker and antidote starlights thank you so much for your lovely
message now did you know though mannery blackman's not just a great author she's also an incredible
screenwriter she's the first black writer for doctor who and she wrote the rosa parks episode
for jody whitaker's doctor there's rosa parks in the episode it is my favorite of that series
she's just brilliant that's how cool she is and if you're thinking about your next mallory blackman
victory well then jesse's got some inspiration for you so i really like hurricane betsy because um
it's got really funny short stories and my favorite story was um betsy and the
betty and the insult contest um because betsy and her friends forgave each other at the end of it
thank you so much jesse hurricane betsy that's such a good superhero name it is such an honor
that we're talking about mallory blackman here on book club because for one thing she's on the
people that opened up her eyes with her novels to the world of racism and prejudice and also at the
age of 23 you might have noticed that was the age where she read her first book that included
exclusively black characters imagine waiting 23 years to read a book where someone is like
you and so she realized that black people can become authors too and since then she's written
amazing books of people of so many different colors so that we could all
feel represented in the stories you read how amazing is that happy bacon sandwiches sent
a little message to say mary blackmon you are so inspirational we had an entire assembly about you
in class and i read cloud busting it was amazing yes because we are celebrating mallory blackman
here on book club because we are looking at amazing authors throughout this summer now
it's time to get into a books and debate though we are asking would you rather have a pet alien
that grants wishes to people like wizziwig or would you have a cool gadget spy kit just like
beans does in operation gadget man and the book slime is on and it seems that purple unicorn 2009
ray 653 and green double tortoises would have a pet alien that grants wishes whereas happy
bacon sandwich would rather have the spire kit i mean technology versus magic isn't it
anyway we've been talking to frank cultural boys about what he loves about mallory blackman
hi i'm frank cultural boyce and i'm a friend and a fan of mallory blackman and the book of hers
that i would like to recommend is called cloud busting cloudbusting is an amazing story about
two people who don't have a lot in common but become friends and i think it's very important
in these days to know that you can be friends with people with whom you've got very little in common
um and it's a great story but even more kind of amazing it's a story told in poems like different
kinds of poems because that's how big mallory blackman's brain is she can write a whole novel
in poetry and different kinds of poetry there's an amazing chapter where the teacher teaches them
about japanese haikus and the whole chapter is in haikus oh so mallory has the biggest
brain of any writer that i've ever met and i think if you read lots of valerie blackmon
you will also get a big brain like hers so that's one very good reason to read malory blackman
author of millions and cosmic frank cultural boys thank you so much uh now make sure that you are
joining us uh next week on cbc book club we're going to be looking at someone chennai author of
the school for good and evil and get involved in the book club page from the cbbc website