![]() ![]() ![]() Published by Quirk Books, Riggs’s trilogy, which encompasses Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Hollow City (2014), and Library of Souls (2015), has sold more than six million copies in more than 40 languages. Penguin Young Readers Group has dubbed the book’s launch “Loop Day” in honor of the time loop Miss Peregrine set on September 3, 1940, which froze time in her remote island home in Wales to protect her wards from an imminent bombing. Featuring woodcut engravings by Andrew Davidson, the book will launch with a million-copy first printing and a consumer marketing campaign highlighted by pub-day celebrations in more than 1,000 bookstores across the country. ![]() What is the backstory of the peculiar children who eventually found refuge with Miss Peregrine? Ransom Riggs gives fans of his bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children trilogy a glimpse into the lore behind this curious brood that the author provides in Tales of the Peculiar, a collection of 10 stories due from Dutton on September 3. ![]()
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