About the Author

Suzanne Collins


PS. I didn't write this so the source is Right Here, or http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/bio.htm


 1991, Suzanne Collins began her professional career writing for children’s television. She worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo.For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the Rankin/​Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! with her friend, Peter Bakalian, which was nominated for a WGA Award in Animation. Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days,and a freelancer on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author and illustrator James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try.

Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. What you might find...? Well, that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part fantasy/​war series, The Underland Chronicles,which became a New York Times bestseller. It has been sold into 21 foreign territories.

Her next series, The Hunger Games Trilogy, is an international bestseller. The Hunger Games has spent more than 286 consecutive weeks/​more than five-and-a-half consecutive years to date on The New York Times bestseller list since publication in September 2008, and has also appeared consistently on USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. It has been sold into 56 territories in 51 languages. In 2010 Collins was named to the TIME 100 list as well as the Entertainment Weekly Entertainers of the Year list.

Lionsgate released a film adaptation of THE HUNGER GAMES on March 23, 2012, directed by Gary Ross who also shared screenplay credit with Suzanne and Billy Ray. It broke multiple box office records and went on to become the 14th highest-grossing North American release of all time on its way to generating nearly $700 million at the worldwide box office. Lionsgate will release the second installment THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE worldwide on November 22, 2013 bringing back stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz along with new cast members Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone and Jeffrey Wright. The film is directed by Francis Lawrence, from a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael DeBruyn. Lionsgate will release THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 on November 21, 2014 and THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 on November 20, 2015, also directed by Lawrence. All four films are being produced by Nina Jacobson of Color Force and Jon Kilik.

In September 2013, Suzanne released a critically acclaimed autobiographical picture book, YEAR OF THE JUNGLE, illustrated by James Proimos. It deals with the year she was six and her father was deployed to Viet Nam. It has been sold into 12 territories in 11 languages. Her first picture book, WHEN CHARLIE MCBUTTON LOST POWER, about a boy obsessed with computer games, was illustrated by Mike Lester and came out in 2005. It has been sold into 4 foreign territories.

summary

Finally I have completed the book, well technique I was done with the book on 5/9/14 and I am writing a post about it right now.  OK so the book Overall was really good and I am going to be telling you the summary of the book, so basically Katniss and Petta have completely ignored each other after their first experience with the Hunger Game (OH NO! I have just ruined the book right there). Until the day president Snow had came to Katniss's house and told her that she had cheated in the Hunger Game, which caused everyone in the city to rebel. Snow gave Katniss a tip to make her love for Petta more believable, during their trip to each district and the tributes that were sent during the Hunger Game. When they reached the place where Katniss's friend lived, she apologized to her family and telling them that she couldn't save her at all. After she was done with her speech there was a man who made a rebellious sign and was shot. and then Katniss felt guilty and they kept going from one place to another. When they were completed with the trip snow charged Katniss with a crime and then he told the people that their is going to be another game and two people from each district will have to participate. There were three peoples name from district 12, they were Katniss, Haymitch, & Petta.  Katniss and Petta were the two to go into the games and Haymitch like before was their mentor. Like before Katniss, Petta, and the other tributes had to put on an interview with Caesar Flickerman, just for the drama and also for the sponsors Katniss told him that Petta and her were going to get married if after the games and also she had told them that she was pregnant. Then came the day for the game she was dropped to the stadium by her dress designer Cinna, when she was in the elevator tube she saw that Cinna was beaten up by snows men and then the game had started.........
Oh forgot to tell you the rest is for u to find out. 

Final Assessment

Hey guys as by now I finished the book Catching fire and I know many of you people out there that love to read  my blog are dying to know what happens in the book, well I am give you my apologies because I will not ruin the book,  but I am willing to tell you how the book was.  So many of you out there will as me the most important question that everyone is dying to know the answer, how was it (even if this is not your question and if you don’t care about how the book was then I suggest that you should stop reading this post, … hint… hint it is a suggestion not a have to do. If there is any other questions beside this one then ask me in the comment section I will try to answerback to you)? The book, t was mind blowing, extravagant and it was so engaging that it was hard for me to let the book out of my hand, this book was so much better than the first one, Suzanne Collis I must say hats off to you I loved the part when  had reentered the games and they weren’t only fighting the other members from the tribute but they were also fighting mother nature (sort of), the part when they had just entered the jungle and during the night there were poisonous fumes released from the tree and it had attacked everyone in  the jungle was just amazing, but I didn’t like the ending, because I felt like it was going keep going but… wait hold on I am about to ruin the ending for you so right now I think it will be bet for me to stop writing this blog right no…………




This is the picture of the sadium that the tributes will fight in.

Voice

We have all read or wathched "Catcing Fire" from the Hunger Game trilogy , right if not then I will have to tell you to stop reading this post, if you are the type of person that likes to know about what happenes in the book well then I am truly sorry abouty that becaus I don't like to ruin the book. So back to the post, so while I was reading the book I read that Peta and Katniss were like acting all flity with eachothe rduring the interview, I don't get that like come on they haven't talked to each after they came back from the Hunger Game and when it was time for an interview they were making out, that is the most supidest (I apologize to the english geeks for saying stupidest, i know it is not a word but I had to to show my anger) thing I have ever read. I have so many questions to ask Suzanne Collins but the one question that alwaus goes to my mind is why did Katniss and Peta have to show the world that they were in love with each other, couldn't they just tell everyone that the broke up or something like how it usually workes in our society today?

Text to World

Thank the lord for humans not to create a world like Catching fire, wait we did in the old days when we would use to have slaves fight for their freedom, what was that called oh yes the gladiator.Catching Fire  reminds me of the time when  there use to be a time of Gladiators, the theme of the both is the same, watch people kill each other as a source of entertainment and the winner is allowed to be free. The only difference is that  in the book there are  teenager from the age of 13 to go into the games and fight for industrialization in their society.

Krista Ramsey Introduction Activity

It talks about the Sik’s and their religion and that they are different from the Muslims (Hard work is one of three central principles of the faith, which was founded in the 15th century in the Punjab region of northwestern India and now has an estimated 25 million adherents worldwide – an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 in the U.S. The other two principles are being constantly mindful of God and sharing what one has. Core Sikh values include honesty, social justice and equality for all. Sikhs renounce superstition, blind rituals and caste systems, and warn against five vices: lust, anger, greed, worldly attachments and ego.) warn against five vices: lust, anger, greed, worldly attachments and ego is an example of diction in the exert, it shows the feelings of the people.

How are Siks and Muslims different?

What is it like when Sik’s are confused for Muslims?

Text to Text

Many of you heard of the new movie that is coming out in 2015 called The Maze Runner, and also you should have heard of the book too. I know, I know many of you are asking why I am bring up the topic about The Maze Runner, well if you haven't gotten a hint from the title of the post, I'll explain it to you. OK so I am Making a Text to Text connection and the connection I have found in between Catching Fire and The Maze Runner that they both involve kids being separated from their society and let there to live on their own but the only difference is that in The Maze Runner the kids are left their to work with each other and help solve the problem and in Catching Fire the kids are let there to kill each other and that is used as a time of entertainment.

Best Thing About The Book and Also The Worst

So with this post lets start off positive because it is always good to start off positive. So the things I love or like about Catching fire so far is that it has already started to make me feel like all tensed up and it's makes me feel like I want to read more of the book and I don't want to stop. Oh wait it doesn't stop there the book has shown a lot of great improvement than it did in the last book the Hunger Game, like I am not even half way done to the book and already it seems so intense and exciting. OK so with the good the bad always follows around.so, the bad things in the book so far..... the truth is that for me I haven't found anything bad about the book yet.

Text to Self

OK, for some of us we have either read or watched the Catching Fire. Well I am asking you do do a job, yes I said the J word J.O.B for some teenager like me job is the biggest enemy they can face. OK so the job I am asking you to do is to remember the time when Katniss was feeling bad about going and talking to the family of the people that Katniss and Peter had killed in the previous book, so she goes to the family and tells them how good of a fighter they were and etc. Well lets just say this happened to me once too, well obviously I didn't kill any one, but figuratively I did in a game of chess. I beat like 13 guys in 13 different games and in the end I made a speech about how I was so happy that I won and that I faced challenging competitors and I was really happy that I was able to beat them. wow I just noticed that this sentence just shows how nerdy I am.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Official Theatrical Trailer (2013) HD

Here is the trailer of the movie going to go watch it, CANT WAIT!!!

New book Intro

Ok first of I have to be honest with you all I have already watched the movie for the hunger game and my intro will have a lot of ruining facts. Catching Fire's setting is a bit confusing, but the main settings are the districts, where Katniss & Petta are visiting to apologize to the family of the kids that died in the Hunger Games. Catching Fire is written by Suzanne Marie Collins is an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times bestselling series The Underhand Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy. She has won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. I chose this book because I love to read science fiction novels I like the way author use their imagination to make something so beautiful such as Catching Fire and The Hunger Game, also a newer book like Mocking Jay. Some question I have before I start to read this book are, Is the book going to be the same as the movie? and Why did snow change the map of the Game???