Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children : the graphic novel

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Title:

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children : the graphic novel

Author:

Riggs, Ransom, author.

Cassandra Jean, illustrator.

Series:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Graphic novels ;

Series Number:

Summary:

"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-- impossible though it seems-- they may still be alive" -- from publisher's web site.

Audience:

Teen.

General Note:

Includes illustrated preview of Hollow City by Ransom Riggs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Fantasy comics.

Comics (Graphic works)

Subject Term:

Orphanages -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Islands -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Photographs -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Author(s):

Cassandra Jean,

Publisher:

Yen Press,

Publication Date:

2013

2011

ISBN:

9780316245289

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Yen Press, 2013.

Call Number:

YA MISSPER # 1

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries designed to stir up his youthful imagination. Or were they...'Following his grandfather's death - a scene Jacob literally couldn't believe with his own eyes - the sixteen-year-old boy embarks on a mission to disentangle fact from fiction in his grandfather's tall tales. But even his grandfather's elaborate yarns couldn't prepare Jacob for the eccentricities he will discover at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!

Author Notes

Ransom Riggs is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Marland in 1980 and attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California. His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss magazine got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list.

One of his other books inspired by old photographs entitled Taking Pictures was published in 2012. Hollow City, the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, also made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)