Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

What was it like for you to see your story come to life on screen for the first time-what things surprised you and struck you as the most amazing? I feel it’s something I could have written and I think it’s totally keeping in spirit with the book. I hope readers feel this way even though there’s a lot of elaboration. Of course there are many things are different, but I feel like all the changes were intended to make the story more cinematic. I tried to be neutral, open and receptive, to just wait for the scripts to come in-and I was so, so pleased. I tried not to envision too much of what it would be before Tim and Jane did their work, because I didn’t want to get attached to something that would change. Ransom Riggs: I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material. She is a 12th grader at Sylmar Charter High School.Den of Geek: With your background in film, how did you envision the movie? Was it similar to your original vision? Kassandra is a virtual volunteer at Sylmar Branch Library.

I would recommend reading this book because it is something completely different and it does make you want to read more-it makes you really engaged in the reading. I think that these novels were probably one of my favorite fantasy novels that I have read, the plot is very interesting and unlike other books. This book also uses some photographs that definitely give it that old book theme and help the reader be able to visualize the setting and what each of the characters looks like. Jacob has to make the choice of staying with the children and Miss Peregrine in the past or going back to the normal world-he chooses to stay.

There are some hollowgasts that are trying to get rid of Miss Peregrine to try and gain immortality-chaos begins to erupt when Jacob’s psychiatrist turns out to be a hollowgast! The reader learns about what Miss Peregrine did to stop the hollogast creatures from harming the children: it is revealed that she created a time loop.

Jacob also learns about a girl named Emma who was in love with his grandfather, and why he abandoned these children after growing up with them. He soon realizes that he has a unique ability, just like them-and he learns about what he can do with this. Jacob ends up in a special home for peculiar children and learns about every person there and what their abilities are. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the first in a series of novels in which Jacob Portman embarks on a journey to find Miss Peregrine and solve the mysteries of his grandfather’s past.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs