Suzanne Collins’ first Hunger Games novel launched in 2008, and went onto change into an enormous franchise. Within the wake of final yr’s profitable prequel movie, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Scholastic is constructing upon that momentum by bringing the primary ebook to life once more with an illustrated version.
This new model will characteristic over 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations by French artist Nico Delort. In a press launch, Collins referred to as Delort’s work “placing,” and paying homage to John Tenniel’s art work for Alice in Wonderland or Fritz Eichenberg’s wooden engravings in Wuthering Heights. “I’m thrilled with Nico’s scratchboard art work,” she wrote, “and really feel it would have the identical lasting affect on a brand new era of Panem readers.” As seen over on Entertainment Weekly, the artwork goes off Collins’ authentic novel reasonably than what’s within the film, which provides a brand new method to take a look at Katniss and the world of Panem.
When the movie model of The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay closed out Katniss’ story in two-part style, Collins made the stunning option to not hold the books going. She solely returned to the franchise in 2020 with Ballad, and it’s clear she’ll only go back to those books if there’s a correct motive to. (To the frustration of many a fan who assume Haymitch and Finnick want novels of their very own.) Because it stands, this illustrated version of the primary ebook—and most likely the opposite books, finally—would possibly find yourself being a number of the final new Starvation Video games materials for the foreseeable future.
The Starvation Video games: Illustrated Version will launch on October 1.
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