Hello-hello-hello! Happy Hunger Games to you! But before we begin, a few words about the book. Before you is a story that happened sixty-four years before the day Katniss Everdeen went to the Games instead of her younger sister. In those times, the Hunger Games were a boring, uninteresting, and straightforward slaughter, and someone named Coriolanus Snow was merely a poor student scraping by. This is the story of how the Hunger Games turned into a sparkling and glamorous show, and how Coriolanus Snow stepped onto the path that would ultimately lead him to the presidency of Panem. This is the story of the Games that featured Lucy Gray Baird. And in November 2023, the premiere of the new Hollywood blockbuster "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" will take place.