Review to "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs, Quirk Publishing
FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Author: Ransom Riggs Publisher: Quirk Publishing Book of a Series? Yes. The first book of a trilogy. Price: $10.99 Pages: 352 Genre: slightly scary young adult/children fiction? :D Year: 2013 CONTENT Some grandparents tell their grandchildren fairytales. But not Jacob Portman's grandpa. He tells his grandson of a far away island, where he once used to live as a child. He tells him of the other children that lived with him and shows him strange pictures of them. A flying girl, an invisible boy, a girl with a fireball in her hand, a skinny boy who lifts a heavy stone. Jacob grows up and stops believing in these stories... until his grandfather dies a death that shocks Jacob forever and he cannot shake the nightmares anymore. He discoveres more and more about the fantasy stories his granddad used to tell him.. until he has the change to travel himself to the island. And wha...