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Riggs, Ransom
(1979- ) US author whose Young Adult Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children sequence, beginning with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) [for further details see Checklist below], smoothly juxtaposes fantasy and Alternate World topoi in a long narrative depicting the trials and tribulations of young Jacob Portman, his disrupted family, Miss Peregrine across the Atlantic who claims to occupy a Time Loop, and various friends who seem to possess something like Superpowers. Echoes of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events sequence are clear, though Riggs's sophisticated and evocative use of found photographs to illuminate his text more than adequately distinguishes this work from his predecessor's.
Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past (graph 2012) is a nonfiction assemblage of similar material. [JC]
Ransom Riggs
born Maryland: 3 February 1979
works
series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2011) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: illus/hb/found photographs]
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel (New York: Yen Press, 2013) [graph version of the above: illus/hb/Cassandra Jean]
- Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2014) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: illus/hb/found photographs]
- Hollow City: The Graphic Novel: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [graph version of the above: illus/hb/Cassandra Jean]
- Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2015) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: illus/hb/found photographs]
- Tales of the Peculiar (New York: Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2016) [coll: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: illus/hb/Andrew Davidson]
- A Map of Days (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2018) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: illus/hb/found photographs]
- The Conference of the Birds (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2020) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: hb/]
- The Desolations of Devil's Acre (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2021) [Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: hb/]
- Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Indispensable Guide to the Dangers and Delights of the Peculiar World for the Instruction of New Arrivals (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2022) [companion to the series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: hb/]
nonfiction
- Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past (New York: HarperCollins/It Books, 2012) [nonfiction: graph: illus/pb/found photographs]
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:46 am on 20 April 2024.
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