An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.

Publisher Annotation: 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 Cuentos extranos para ninos peculiares?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...