Book 79:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
This children's book was originally
intended to be a picture book
featuring photographs Riggs had collected, but on the advice of an editor at Quirk Books, he used the photographs as a guide from which
to put together a narrative. Riggs was a collector of photographs, but needed
more for his novel. He met Leonard Lightfoot, a well-known collector at the Rose Bowl Flea Market
and was introduced to other collectors.The result was a story about a boy who
follows clues from his grandfather's old photographs which lead him on an
adventure that takes him to a large abandoned orphanage on a Welsh island.
The book
has been a New York Times best seller. It reached the #1 spot on the Children's
Chapter Books list on 29 April 2012 after being on the list for 45 weeks,
remaining there until 20 May, when it dropped to the fourth spot on the
list.Critics have generally praised the book for creative use of vintage
photographs as well as good characterization and settings.
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