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miss peregrines home for peculiar children is a young adult fantasy book series with the first book originally published in 2012 by ransom riggs as a first time author who originally intended on creating a picture book featuring the authentic vintage found photographs he had collected from. yknow. wherever you get your authentic vintage found photographs. however the publishers pushed him to turn it into a proper novel incorporating the photographs into the narrative. the first of the series is a new york times bestseller (even though we all know that doesnt mean much) and was adapted (badly) into a (bad) movie by tim burton in 2016. the main series concluded in 2021 after six books typically split into two trilogies of a continuous narrative: miss peregrines home for peculiar children, hollow city, library of souls, a map of days, the conference of the birds, the desolations of devils acre, as well as two companion books (?); one a collection of fairy tale esque short stories set in-universe, and the other an in-universe guide book to the universe (im bad at explaining this one sorry) (also it came out after tdoda)

the main series follows jacob portman, a sixteen year old boy living in a small beach town in florida with no friends and a strained relationship with his parents, but a freakish link with his grandfather. as a child, his grandfather told him many stories about his own childhood which included some seemingly fictionalised accounts of his time in a childrens home off the coast of wales, surrounded by children with magical abilities. as he grew up he realised they couldnt be true, but following his grandfathers untimely (lol) death, he finds himself travelling to the island in sense of some sort of closure

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Pub: 13 Apr 2025 20:27 UTC

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