Suzanne Collins’ first Hunger Games novel released in 2008, and went onto become a massive franchise. In the wake of last year’s successful prequel film, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Scholastic is building upon that momentum by bringing the first book to life again with an illustrated edition.
When the film version of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay closed out Katniss’ story in two-part fashion, Collins made the surprising choice to not keep the books going. She only returned to the franchise in 2020 with Ballad, and it’s clear she’ll only go back to these books if there’s a proper reason to. (To the disappointment of many a fan who think Haymitch and Finnick need novels of their own.) As it stands, this illustrated edition of the first book—and probably the other books, eventually—might end up being some of the last new Hunger Games material for the foreseeable future.
The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition will release on October 1.
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