The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is a prequel to The Hunger Games focusing on a young President Snow's rise to power as a mentor. The story is set 10 years after the war and introduces the early stages of the Hunger Games, with resentment from the districts. A new Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, is set during the 50th Hunger Games and follows the story of Haymitch Abernathy.

The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is a prequel to The Hunger Games, set decades before the original Suzanne Collins trilogy. The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes focuses on a young President Snow (Tom Blyth) and how he rose to power when he was first picked to be a mentor for a tribute. The book was released in 2020 and was adapted for a 2023 movie. The story explains where the corruption in his rise to President started. As a District 12 mentor,...