Coven

Soman Chainani's six novels in the School for Good and Evil series each debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. The series has sold over 4.2 million copies, has been translated into 35 languages, and has been adapted into a film by Netflix that debuted at #1 in over 80 countries. His collection of retold fairy tales, Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, was also an instant New York Times bestseller and is in development to be a television series from Sony 3000.

Soman is a graduate of Harvard University and received his MFA in film from Columbia University. Every year, he visits schools around the world to speak to kids and share his secret: that reading is the path to a better life.

Joel Gennari has illustrated over forty educational children's books, textbooks, and the educational comic book series Power Coders. In addition to his career as an illustrator, he is also an Emmy-winning puppet builder for the Jim Henson Company. He has worked on such shows as Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock and even built puppets for the HBO hit series We're Here.