Suzanne Collins has been doing busy writing for television for children since 1991. She has worked on a number of Nickelodeon shows staffs. Most recently she was the Head Writer for Clifford's Puppy Days at Scholastic Entertainment. While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O!, she met James Proimos, the author of children, who spoke to her to try out books for children. One day thinking of Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to children who have lived in urban surroundings like her own. You're far more likely to fall down a manhole in New York City than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you won't find a tea party. What could you be finding..? Well, that is Gregor the Overlander's story, the first book in her five-part series of fantasy/war, The Underland Chronicles. She currently lives with her family in Connecticut, and a couple of feral kittens that they adopted from their backyard.... Read More
