Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Ransom Riggs' debut modern fantasy novel. The story is conveyed through a blend of narration and finding pictures from the author's list of collectors' personal archives. This young adult novel was supposed to be a picture book showing images Riggs had gathered, but on the recommendation of an editor at Quirk Books, he used the photographs as a guide to piece together a narrative. Riggs was a picture collector, but he needed more for his narrative. At the Rose Bowl Flea Market, he met Leonard Lightfoot, a well-known collector, and was introduced to other collectors. As a consequence, a novel about a youngster who follows clues from his grandfather's old pictures, legends, and his grandfather's dying words leads him on an adventure to a big abandoned orphanage on Cairnholm, a fictional Welsh island, was born.
The novel was a New York Times best-seller. It topped the Children's Chapter Books list on April 29, 2012, after being on the chart for 45 weeks, and stayed there until May 20, when it fell to fourth place. Critics have lauded the book for its inventive use of antique images in sepia tone and surrealist form, as well as its strong characters and setting. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the first in a series, is filled with intriguing vintage photographs collected by the author and is especially appealing to younger audiences and readers looking for an adventure in a Welsh setting.
Detailed information:
Author: Ransom Riggs
Genre: Young adult literature, fantasy
Published: June 7, 2011
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/9460487
