Description
The New York Times Best Seller
About the Author
Ransom Riggs is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters viral video book trailer (named Best Book Trailer of the Year by Amazon.com!). He's also the author of Quirk's Sherlock Holmes Handbook. He is a screenwriter and filmmaker by trade. This is his first novel.
Reviews
"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."-John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns
"Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."-CNN
"Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story."-Associated Press
"I read all of the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children books and I loved them."-Florence of Florence + The Machine
"[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs."-USA Today Pop Candy
"With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it's no wonder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+"-Entertainment Weekly
"Peculiar' doesn't even begin to cover it. Riggs' chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies."-People
"You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself."-Seventeen
"Delightfully weird."-Good Housekeeping
"One of the coolest, creepiest YA books."-PopSugar
Awards
Short-listed for California Young Reader Medal (Young Adult) 2016 and Iowa Teen Award 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9781594746031
Author Ransom Riggs
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Quirk Books
Publisher Quirk Books
Series Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 207mm * 133mm * 20mm