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The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
While it’s not without its callbacks to the original young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — adapted from Suzanne Collins’s bestselling 2020 prequel — intentionally feels worlds away from the version of Panem that fans are used to. Set sixty-four years before Katniss volunteers...
Second Book Syndrome: In Defense of Second Books
Second book syndrome. As readers, we’ve all heard of it and even diagnosed some books we’ve read with it. After loving an author's first book, we might not find that their second book lives up to our expectations (or the hype). I’ve found this is especially true with series. Book...
Presidents' Day + Snow Day = President Snow Day
Today some people are celebrating Presidents' Day while others are observing "Not My President's Day." Because there's still snow on the ground where we are (and for no other reason!), here are some recommended books and articles about: U.S. presidents, snow, YA dystopian literature, activism, and Hunger Games fandom.Save...
Saving Sisters: Little Women, The Hunger Games, and Frozen
Those who treasure Little Women often praise the rebel at its center or its theme of sisterhood. Louisa May Alcott helped build domestic realism with a novel set largely around a Massachusetts hearth during the Civil War, but she also might be credited with having the audacity to write a...
MockingJo
[In anticipation of The CW’s forthcoming "gritty" adaptation of Little Women]My name is Jo March. My home is Concord, Massachusetts. I live with my mother and three sisters while my father fights in the war.No, even that’s wrong.My name is Jo March. My home is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My half-sisters and...
Reviews of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy
The Hunger Games [Hunger Games]by Suzanne CollinsMiddle School, High School Scholastic 374 pp.10/08 978-0-439-02348-1 $17.99Survivor meets “The Lottery” as the author of the popular Underland Chronicles returns with what promises to be an even better series. The United States is no more, and the new Capitol, high in the...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 movie review
The team behind The Hunger Games film adaptations gets it. With plenty of explosions and covert operations to draw from in Suzanne Collins's source material, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (Lionsgate Films, November 2014; PG-13) could have been just an action movie. Instead, the filmmakers' decision to split the...
Do you wear what you read?
tutorial by makeupgeek.comSince seeing Catching Fire (twice), I've taken to wearing my hair in a "Katniss braid"... and judging from the vast number of Katniss hair and makeup tutorials on the web, I'm not the only one who's copped her style. Heck, even President Snow's granddaughter and her classmates are...
Brave new worlds
In her article “What Makes a Good YA Dystopian Novel?” from the May/June Horn Book Magazine, April Spisak offers thirteen recommendations for young adult dystopian books and series. We've also suggested some recently published Hunger Games trilogy readalikes for both YA and younger audiences here on Out of the Box.But...
Katie enters the arena
Katie Bircher braved the midnight show to report on The Hunger Games.In order to get Richard to go I think I'm going to have in turn see Footnote, an Israeli father-and-son drama that doesn't exactly sound up my alley (anybody else who was bored by A Separation, raise your unwashed...
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