Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Imagine stumbling into another time another place full of these peculiar children!

 

Imagine stumbling into another time another place full of these peculiar children!

 

Mrs Peregrines school For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is so very different  than your average novel.  For those unaware, this book is created from found photography.  The book is written around the photography rather than the other way around, everyone of the pictures is a real photo all of which are really creepy and appear mysterious and magical all found from much older times.

 

The story itself revolves around a young six-teen year old man named Jacob.  Jacob grew up listening to stories of his grandfather Abe and his childhood at the home of Mrs Peregrines where he had escaped to during WWII. Abe also shows Jake pictures of the peculiar children he shared his home with and their amazing abilities. For a while Jake believed that that's how it was, and believed and wondered about the photo's he was shown. But as Jake grows older he comes to believe that it's all an analogy from his experiences in escaping Poland as a Jew in the war, and that what he survived led him to make in into fantastic stories. One afternoon Jacob gets a phone call from his dad, his grandfather is having another one of those "crazy moments." Jacob arrives at his grandfathers house back door wide open and grandfather missing. 

 

A horrific family tragedy sets  Jacob journeying 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 a good reason. And somehow impossible as  it seems, they may still be alive.

 

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.