The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition

I disegni molto carini, uno per ogni capitolo (20) unica "pecca" le pagine bianche, sarebbe stato molto più bello su pagine di libro normali, giallognole e ruvide... ,🤷

Livro lindo, mas não tiveram cuidado com o livro na entrega, veio amassado nas laterais

Amazing hard cover book, Love the illustrations

The original Hunger Games trilogy (starting with The Hunger Games itself) is not really young adult fiction, even though it’s marketed that way. The books - quite different from the films - are dark, angry, violent, and tackle themes such as war, torture, abuse, brainwashing, injury, and the long shadows they cast. [SPOILER ALERT] The two main protagonists end up severely traumatised and never fully recover. One major character starts as - and essentially remains - an alcoholic. Several key characters die, and not in pleasant ways. [END SPOILER] The trilogy is spectacularly written, and given that it is speculative/science fiction, I remain surprised it has never been nominated for, let alone won, any major science fiction awards. A bit of a lapse in judgement on the part of the publisher - Scholastic. What Scholastic may have missed in the original marketing, it has more than made up for with this spectacular new illustrated hardcover edition, which rivals the quality of the Folio Society. The book is large, with thick, pleasant-to-touch paper, large readable font, woodblock-style black‑and‑white illustrations by Nico Delort, and actual sewn binding that allows it to lie fully open. All this for a fraction of what a Folio Society book would cost, with the only potential downside (for some, though not for me) being that the book is printed in China. If publisher awards exist, Scholastic deserves one for boldly bringing high‑quality bookmaking back into the mainstream. Pictures attached show how the the illustrated edition compares to the standard hardcover. Should you buy this illustrated edition? If you’re a fan of the series, absolutely - even if you already a copy of a standard edition. Scholastic has already released the second book in the series, Catching Fire, in the same format and with the same illustrator in October 2025, and has committed to publishing Mockingjay in October 2026. What should you do with the edition you already own, if you have one? My personal solution was a charity donation (to Royal Trinity Hospice in London, UK). That way - unlike in the series - everyone wins.

If I could give zero stars I would. The book is barely illustrated, and is a waste of time if you have the original book. The few illustrations that the book does have aren’t even nice. It’s incredibly overpriced too. Started the return process on the 7th Jan and still waiting for refund from Amazon 3 weeks later. Contacted customer services who said it would be paid but still nothing received. Save yourself the issue and just don’t buy it to begin with.