Tales of the Peculiar
by:
Ransom Riggs (author)
Andrew Davidson (illustrator)
A companion to the bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A...
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A companion to the bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton.
Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales.
Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history, with a collection of original stories in this deluxe volume of Tales of the Peculiar, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar. Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned artist Andrew Davidson, this compelling, rich, and truly peculiar anthology is the perfect gift for not only fans, but for all lovers of great storytelling.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399538537 (0399538534)
Publish date: 2016-09-03
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
This was actually really good. I don't normally like short stories, but the fairytale format works, and there's a clever twist to each, a lot like what Leigh Bardugo does.
In much the same spirit as J.K. Rowlings The Tales of Beedle the Bard, this is meant to be a companion book of the fairy tales that peculiars learned as part of their peculiar folklore in the series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The book is structured as authentically as possible,...
This book of short stories was really lovely. All the tales were creepy and really great and the illustrations were stunning! A short and pleasant read.
First and foremost, thank you to Penguin for the review copy! You've inadvertently created another Riggs fan. Believe it or not this was my first time reading Ransom Riggs. Strange (peculiar?), but true. What was particularly great about this collection is that it did not suffer for my having not ...
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