Tuesday's Tidbit

To help continue The Hunger Games frenzy below are some facts about the book:

• Suzanne Collins(author) got the idea for The Hunger Games while surf­ing chan­nels and see­ing peo­ple com­pet­ing on a real­ity show and footage of the inva­sion of Iraq.
• The Hunger Games’ ini­tial print was 200,000, bumped up from 50,000.
• The book has been trans­lated to 26 dif­fer­ent languages.
• Suzanne Collins is the first children’s or YA author to sell over a mil­lion Kin­dle eBooks and, as of March 2012, Collins is the best sell­ing Kin­dle author of all times.
• The novel ranks fifth on the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion of most banned books for 2010 for being "sex­u­ally explicit, unsuited to age group, and vio­lence."

~Happy Hunger Games!  And may the odds be ever in your favor!